Word: schwartzes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebuttal article written by Russell Schwartz, Director of the Peace Corps for Botswana, has an uncomfortably familiar ring to me. I heard it all before when I and my colleague, Elaine Derso ('64) resigned from the Peace Corps in Chile in January, 1965. There is little point to an extensive discussion of our reasons for resigning as Volunteers, since our action came in response to a situation in Chile strikingly similar to the one Paul Cowan has already described in his article as existing in Ecuador. Suffice it to say, in response to Russell Schwartz's allegation that "Paul Cowan...
...most frustrating (and damning) characteristic of Schwartz's article is that he himself clearly believes every word of it. He really thinks that "it is ironic that one on who has departed from the scene [i.e., a resigned Volunteer] should presume title to the very themes of ... [the Peace Corps] endeavor," and that the "role of those Americans [who are overseas] has changed--not to a point of perfection, certainly, but to a point where perfection is a less impossible goal." This is exactly the attitude Elaine and I found in the Chilean Peace Corps Administration: an incredibly naive self...
...prayer house, about as big as one of those very large doll houses in an F.A.O. Schwartz catalogue was as bare as could be except for a mat, a teapot, a tooth brush, and, disconcertingly, a stack of American comic books. I haven't any idea what they were doing there...
Jerome A. Cohen, professor of Law, Rupert Emerson, professor of Government, Benjamin Schwartz, professor of History and Government, and James C. Thomson Jr., assistant professor of History were the statement's four Harvard signers. Twenty-two other American scholars also signed...
...GSOC is a new graduate organization created last month to provide an alternative to the GSA. Schwartz said that a number of graduate students asked the GSA to hold discussions of University involvement in the Vietnamese war, but were turned down...