Word: langer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After the war we saw the need for pulling all of this together in the universities," declares William L. Langer, Coolidge of the Committee on Regional Studies. "The need for integrating our knowledge of an area-became extremely important," he says...
...chairman of the committee which sets policy for all three programs, Langer has a good perspective on Regional Studies. "Our area programs are not intended to be comprehensive in the sense of giving a complete and finished understanding, but they do give a pretty good over-all view of language, history, and the general problems. They have all worked very well...
...East Asia program is the best example of an area program that has evolved directly from the war, and it has also, as Langer says, worked very well indeed...
...quiet and persistent scholar. His particular bent is the relation of Humanism to Renaissance political and social thought. Currently he is preparing a study on "Freedom and Determinism in Renaissance Historians." Because his work has dealt mostly with intellectual history, Gilmore was particularly pleased several years ago when Professor Langer approached him with the request that he write the Renaissance volume for the "Langer Series." "It gave me a chance to explore all sides of the field," he says. The result was The World of Humanism. Along with a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, insured for $500,000, it appeared...
Then McCarthy tried to withdraw his resolution. Johnson and Knowland forced the resolution to a vote, and McCarthy lost, 77 to 4. Aside from Joe, the only remaining adherents of McCarthywasm were Indiana's Jenner, Nevada's Malone and North Dakota's Langer...