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Though paired with the European conflicts as World War II, the immense battles in Asia traced their beginnings back to different histories, different cultures, different fears and humiliations. The Pacific was a clash of civilizations: the attempt of a modern, non-Western power to carve its place, if not establish its superiority, in a world dominated and colonized by white people. And the war's beginning came long before the attack on Pearl Harbor...
Fine Arts 13, though still an introductory class, now includes non-Western forms of art like Indian and Japanese classics. It is now "more thematic than chronological," Professor of Fine Arts Irene J. Winter said earlier this fall...
...Harvard classes, Mr. Chrisman's Class of 1955 would have been (almost without exception) white. Protestant or Catholic, and fairly well-off. Forty years later, my Class of 1995 is vastly more diverse, with people of countless racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds, a good proportion of them from non-Western countries. I therefore must confess that I do not understand the usefulness of requiring all students to have a thorough grounding in Western Civilization. Although a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (a definition which I see the need for only on official documents). I appreciate the opportunity to take courses like...
...Arts B-10 is the arts survey course students have sought unsuccessfully since the department stopped giving Fine Arts 13 after the spring of 1991. In addition to standards of Western art like the Parthenon and Michaelangelo, B-10 will discuss Indian, Japanese and other non-western...
...Indian art so I use pieces from India to illustrate non-Western forms," says Winter, adding that professors in years to come might teach works from their own specialties. "You teach best what you love best...