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...Even for a scholar to make a report on that topic in 120 days is a pretty formidable task," Rudenstine said...
Visiting Professor of German Eric Rentschler, of the University of California at Irvine, has compiled a varied reading list featuring recent works such as Holo-caust scholar Saul Friedlander's Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death, dissecting the magic and myth that have shrouded recollections of Hitler in popular culture; Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective, analyzing President Reagan's 1985 controversial visit to a Holocaust cemetery; and Spielberg's Holocaust, a volume of essays analyzing the strengths and limitations of Schindler's List in bridging cinema and history...
...Even for a scholar to make a report on that topic in 120 days is a pretty formidable task," Rudenstine said...
Into this fray comes America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible (Simon & Schuster; $32.50) by noted Harvard professor Stephan Thernstrom and his scholar wife Abigail. The couple are the latest in a string of former liberals come round to denounce affirmative action. But unlike more polemical authors, the Thernstroms pin their arguments to seven years of research, modeling their approach on Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 benchmark racial survey, An American Dilemma. Their prose is cool, not overheated, and their 704-page book is stuffed with tables, charts and graphs tracking black progress over the past 60 years...
Peggy Charren, the leading crusader for the Children's Television Act and a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, says, "There is no one set of guidelines applicable to every family. It's hard to tell working parents with latchkey kids, for instance, to keep them away from the television. But parents should at least get involved in what the children watch. Some of it is wonderful, some of it mindless, some of it horrifying, and they need our guidance...