Word: ross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Chairman Mao Tse-tung died last month, the two Harvard professors most sought after for comment by journalists and scholars were John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, and Ross G. Terrill, associate professor of Government...
...system works in any country, for that matter. That much is agreed upon by Harvard's most prominent and widely-quoted Sinologists--John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History, Roy M. Hofheinz Jr. '67, professor of Government, and Ross Terrill, assistant professor of Government. In a typical response to a query about the post-Mao direction of Chinese leadership, Fairbank says, "It's just nonsense to try to guess at history from a great distance. The American press likes to do it a lot. Yet I doubt there...
...world's foremost authorities on modern China, associate professor of Government Ross G. Terrill, may have to leave Harvard next year because he did not receive an offer of tenure from the Government Department...
Michael NgQuinr, a graduate student in Government who has been a teaching assistant in Terrill's course, Government 177, "China in International Politics," for two years, said last night, "Ross is one of the most concerned China scholars and devoted teachers on campus. We shall miss...
...traditionally been black women who spurned the written word or, for that matter, any kind of regulation. The celebrated Mme. Bouligny, one of the last grandes dames of New Orleans society, had a Haitian cook who seasoned her gumbo with a voodoo prayer. "Getting directions from colored cooks," Harriet Ross Colquitt wrote in The Savannah Cookbook, "is rather like trying to write down the music to the spirituals which they sing -for all good oldtimers (and newtimers too) cook...