Word: hoffmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hoffmann had survived the Nazis' reign, but not its effect. He says that his present deep interest in the study of war springs from "that long, long night-mare from which one never knew if one was to emerge alive." For the past five years, he has taught a course on war, now Soc Sci 112, and ultimately he plans to write a book which will develop his lecture ideas more fully. Next year he will publish a study of American foreign policy, dwelling on its relations...
...Hoffmann no longer likes to talk about his proposal. "It's bad for one man to be in the limelight too much around here," he says. "Bad for the committee...
...Hoffmann's zest for Harvard, still very evident and unabashed, dates from 1951, when he spent a year here working for his Master's degree. He had entered the Institute d'Etudes Politiques in Paris after the war, when he was 18, and had begun studying for a law degree at the same time...
...Hoffmann graduated from law school, which he loathed, and the college of political science, which fascinated him, the same year, 1948. He then hoped to enter a newly-established school for French career civil servants. But his Austrian birth--in Vienna in 1928--made him temporarily ineligible. School regulations required that applicants be naturalized French citizens for five years, and Hoffmann, who received his citizenship in 1947 although he had lived in France since 1929, couldn't quality until...
...late 1951 Hoffmann returned to France, but through a freak accident (his subscription to Le Monde had expired three days before a change in the application deadline was announced) he arrived home too late to apply to civil service school. Instead he languished in the French army, fulfilling his military obligation in Paris as an aide to the Minister of War--until January, 1955, when Bundy wrote and invited him to fill a vacant Instructorship at Harvard...