Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failure, as Fairbank sees it, is that U.S. scholars simply let French academicians worry about Viet Nam since France was involved there for so long. To staff its Southeast Asia Program, Cornell, in fact, has had to import French, British and Japanese experts. Another problem is the difficulty of gaining such expertise. A solid scholar on Viet Nam must master the Ciinese language, then Vietnamese, and also be able to handle the anthropology, economics, politics and history of that confusing country. That particular blend of ability and interest has been scarce, and it takes about ten years to train such...
Hard Luck. Massie, a Rhodes scholar and freelance journalist, will probably distress academic historians by his abstention from heavy ideological expositions-and by his brisk prose. His plain thesis is that the murder of Nicholas and Alexandra put the seal of irrevocability on the Bolsheviks' successful putsch against the infant Kerensky government. Both events are traced more to Nicholas' hard luck than to any concatenation of inevitable historical forces-a Marxist theory that 50 years of propaganda have almost conned the West into accepting...
This is the 16th Judge Dee novel by Robert van Gulik, 57, who is the Netherlands' Ambassador to Japan and an Oriental scholar. His writing lacks somewhat in professional sheen, but Scholar Gulik more than compensates with rich and accurate historical detail of the Tang dynasty. The manners and mores, the factionalism and regionalism of that ancient era suggest that modern China is not, after all, much more adept at maintaining the writ of Peking over the vast, disparate reaches and peoples of the Asian Goliath...
...Johns Hopkins history professor who in 1946 was chosen to compile the Army's official wartime chronicle, with a staff of 275 sifted through 17,120 tons of records, frequently popping across the hall from his Pentagon office to grill the general "who was there" (Told by one scholar that his work would have no 'perspective, he snapped, "Neither can you interview Caesar"), and produced 51 of 80 planned volumes before retiring in 1958; of a heart attack; in Baltimore...
Vladimir Nabokov once remarked that the ideal reader for his books would be someone like himself, "a little Nabokov." There may never be one, for it would be hard to match him even in junior size. Besides being a scholar, critic, translator, chess player, lepidopterist and eccentric, he is one of those relatively rare writers who in the midst of their career have been able to alter the language of their craft. Above all, he is a unique artificer in the arid world of contemporary fiction...