Word: slavicize
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...tried the interdisciplinary thing at the College: Russian studies (RS) in the Slavic Department. My experience was better than that of most interdisciplinary students at Harvard, I’d say, but that’s mostly because the interdisciplinary framework gave me a great deal of flexibility to pursue my own interests, which were rarely satiated by a single discipline. I got to write a thesis that was somewhere between government, history, and art history. And I got to take concentration classes in three departments. But even the RS program, one of the best interdisciplinary tracks on campus, needs...
Piotr Brzezinski ’07 is an economics and Slavic Languages and Literature concentrator in Currier House...
Professor of the Practice of Slavic Languages Patricia R. Chaput expressed concern that the study abroad report lacks a vision...
...mail to Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and then-Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, noted that the State Department’s warnings applied to countries concentrated in specific regions, namely Africa, the Middle East, and several Slavic nations, thus precluding students who study these areas from pursuing their interests abroad...
...rise of the hero disposed to combat one of his age's great scourges and his undaunted denouement was an unsettling second act, as more liberal believers realized that their shepherd could be autocratic, hardheaded and disapproving. For such disaffected followers, John Paul was not unlike another great Slavic moralist, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, lionized while his prophetic voice was raised against the Soviet behemoth and less welcome when he turned it on the victorious West. James Carroll, a former priest who has written frequently on the church and the Pope, says, "Americans clearly loved this man's goodness. But we were...