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...Fairbank did not always have this sense of mission. His stumbling onto the continent was in fact pure chance, a sort of accident of history. During lunch one day at the Signet, Fairbank, the Harvard undergrad studying English trade history, happened to hear Sir Charles Webster, the British historian just back from Kyoto, say that a new archive on 19th-century Chinese history had been opened in Peking. Fairbank decided that it was worth spending half of his Rhodes scholarship to take a look. Wilma C. Fairbank, then his wife-to-be, recalls that one of his classmates said...
Questions of this sort are familiar to the schools which now have programs. If their experience is any indication, the movement--if there is one--toward a women's studies program will take several years. The process, slow as it may be, does seem to have begun, and Harvard may not be deficient in this one area for too much longer...
...review of Carl Sagan's book The Dragons of Eden [May 23], Peter Stoler says, "Sagan wonders, why do infants, who presumably have little or no experience to sort out, seem to dream as much as their elders...
...trying to cure his neighbors by bringing them what they think is hope). The implication, indeed, is that these colorful visions persist amid the gray rubble of the ghetto just as the human spirit persists amid intolerance and oppression. But Jacob the Liar is too rigorous to claim any sort of triumph for that spirit - only that it is there...
Both parties are well served by Nabokov: His Life in Part. The book is a valuable document that provides the sort of details that would have grounded Speak, Memory. Field delves into Nabokov's genealogy: the evidence is circumstantial, but the possibility of noble Tartar ancestors is strong. In his mother's family tree there are Baltic barons and Teutonic knights. There are added highlights to previous glowing portraits of Nabokov's father V.D. Nabokov, an authority on criminal law and a courageous liberal in Russia's first, shortlived Parliament. He was killed...