Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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West Berlin's Republican Club, a New Left citadel, charged that "the concept of proletarian internationalism has been subordinated by the top leadership of the Soviet Union to a strategy of stabilizing and maintaining their own dominant position." Says Tariq Ali, the Oxford-educated Pakistani who leads Britain's New Left: "What has been made clear in Czechoslovakia is that Marxist concepts are not being applied in the Soviet Union. If Moscow felt the need to intervene somewhere, it should have been in Viet...
...then, Sheed was enrolled in Downside, a Benedictine prep school in England somewhat resembling Sopworth in The Blacking Factory. Eventually, he took a degree in history at Oxford, spent a year with his father's relatives in Sydney, Australia ("more eccentricity per square foot than anywhere"), and settled in Greenwich Village as a writer. His first novel, A Middle Class Education (1961), earned him a small reputation that has grown slowly but steadily. Last year his fourth novel, Office Politics, was nominated for a National Book Award. Now, at 37, he is justly rated as one of the nation...
After he graduated from Harvard, Brinton won a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford University, from which he graduated with a Ph.D. in History in 1923. Brinton then returned to Harvard to become an instructor and tutor in History. He was appointed Associate Professor in 1932. Ten years later he received a full Professorship...
Physical Ruin. The symbol of Biafran resistance is Lieut. Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a brooding hulk of a man who leads his people's military effort and speaks for their pain. With an Oxford education, a rare gift for rhetoric and a deep sense of the tragedy encompassing the war, he is endowed with the best that the white man has given Africa and beset by the worst of Africa's many ills. Ojukwu is also probably...
Ojukwu's early schooling took place among the Yorubas of Lagos, Nigeria's bustling seaport capital. At twelve, he was shipped off to the best British education that an Ibo millionaire could buy, first at Epsom public school in Surrey and then at Oxford's Lincoln College. "When I first went to England as a boy," he recalls, "I was swamped by that sea of white faces. I didn't even recognize people who had been my teachers, once they were immersed among their own kind." On the debating team at Epsom, he developed a keen gift for words...