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...Like Dr. Ellsberg, we have the most valuable interests to protect. Like Dr. Ellsberg, we have the most sins to confess. Like Dr. Ellsberg, we would have to take drastic initiative to break loose, even to preserve an academic integrity in an institution whose social attitudes often grow from nineteenth century intellectual seeds...
...would be a mistake to think that ideas are loss dangerous than actions. History shows otherwise, "Scientific" racists like Gobineau in the mid-nineteenth century and the anti-Semites of post-World War I Europe helped create atmospheres in which genocide was an intellectual possibility. More recently, some Cold War historians, describing a "monolithic Communist bloc," have given an academic cushion for an American government that indiscriminately opposes Communism...
Alexander Woodside, assistant professor of History, has pointed out in his book Vietnam and the Chinese Model that the nineteenth century Vietnamese bureaucratic code employed repetitiveness to ingrain "a specific written system of political signals" into the mind of the Vietnamese student. Woodside adds, "These written codes were narrow and restricted, in the interests of encouraging predictable behavior. Individual discretion and originality were reduced in the process...
...Proust and fashions, Proust and the 19th century-no approach is too narrow, no approach is too wide. Proustians are forever arguing among themselves. In this short volume the Master is variously defined as a chronicler of society whose work was "a summing up of the nineteenth century" and, on the contrary, a "visionary artist" whose genius was to transcend time. He is described as a moralist who "judges" and "condemns" and a "visual writer" who sees. He is compared with French Impressionist paintings and Wagnerian opera...
There is a fine photograph taken in the last half of the nineteenth century. Eighteen hundreds-for those of us without good historical understanding they can at least be approached in crude chronology. Between the war for independence (revolutionary) and the freeing of the slaves, there was another large war, of opposing directions and, at an off-Broadway production of Our American Cousin, the sudden death of our president, a good man. References to this century have priorities in the immediate moment, and beyond the eighteenth century the understanding are truly historical-the chosen preservations that have influenced...