Word: kohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 60 visiting instructors also taught at the school; these included poet Pierre Emmanuel, economist David McCord Wright, critic John Crowe Ransom, History professor Hans Kohn, and foreign policy expert Hans J. Morgenthau...
Among the classes the institute recorded were Pierre Emmanuel's "The Tragic Sense in Modern Literature," Hans Kohn's "Nationalism in International Relations in the 20th Century," Hans Morgenthzu's "Principles of International Politics," and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's "The Solar System and its Evolution."M-17WILLIAM YANDELL ELLIOTT directed the University's Summer School for the second year and taught Government 1a besides fulfilling his administrative duties. Last summer he participated in the conference on the "Defense of Poetry," and this year he was one of the members of the panel that discussed "Philosophy in our Culture Crisis...
...improbable if we don't make mistakes--if we don't relax our military effort and our work towards Atlantic Union or if we don't become provocative out of too great fear." According to Kohn, the Cold War won't last too long, "perhaps ten or 15 years...
...professor at City College, Kohn taught at Harvard twice before as a visiting lecturer. When he was last here in 1943, he was gravely concerned about Russia, but today he feels our country is too pessimistic...
...Kohn's major concern now is the loss by democrats of the ability to make moral discriminations. "In 1945 we thought Stalinism was different from fascism. In our mental softness, we have adopted much from our enemies...