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...West as America" free from this? By no means. Its tone is prosecutorial, and often unfairly so. The walls are laden with tendentious "educational" labels, seemingly aimed at 14-year-olds. The catalog essays are mostly better than this, but not always. Thus Julie Schimmel, writing of Charles Bird King's 1822 portrait of Omahaw and other Indian chiefs who visited Washington -- an image that could hardly be exceeded in straightforwardness and respect for the sitters -- claims that "they represent a race that could perhaps be persuaded by rational argument . . . to abandon tribal tradition." There is not a shred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: How The West Was Spun | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

Adding to the problem, students said, is the imminent departure this year or next of Schimmel, who teaches upper-level Urdu language courses. be difficult to continue these courses if the University does not begin funding the programs with its own money...

Author: By Beong-soo Kim, | Title: South Asian Instruction May Be Cut | 2/7/1991 | See Source »

...past, a non-University grant for teaching in South Asian languages and Indo-Muslim culture has paid for Asani's and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Professor Annemaire Schimmel's salaries...

Author: By Beong-soo Kim, | Title: South Asian Instruction May Be Cut | 2/7/1991 | See Source »

Sheila deB. Schimmel, assistant to the master at Lowell House, attributed the large contingent of HUCTW members to Chavez' request that "specific interest groups" be notified of the speech. She said the activist leader singled out "labor, animal rights [groups], union and the gay community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chavez Asks Students To Join Grape Boycott | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

...really tried to make the Harvard community aware of Pakistan--she was able to put it on the map," says Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Annemarie Schimmel, whose lectures on Pakistan Bhutto often attended while at Radcliffe. "I told her father that she was a great messenger for the country--that she was doing more for Pakistan in that way than anyone could...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Behind 'Pinkie' Bhutto's Passion for Politics | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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