Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surely it would have been possible to direct the contributions toward a more limited topic. Perhaps the magazine could have concentrated on a discussion of Rhodesia and South Africa, the plans and prospects for African unity, or the pattern of military coups revealed recently in Nigeria and Ghana. Instead the reader is confronted with all of these problems, plus an attempt to describe a comprehensive United States policy toward the entire African continent...
...topic was beginning to agitate the Ambassador and he leaned forward abruptly. A coalition government in Vietnam, he argued," would create far greater danger for world peace than the present restricted conflict." Historically would resume as it did after the 1962 neutralization of Laos, because "when you bring the Communists in, you have one party using coercion as a means of influencing the people and the other party has to resort to the same." He settled back again and lit a Pall Mall...
...history library on the top floor of Widener--can provide an escape from many of the academic agonies of the junior and senior years. Honors concentrators in history who face the task of thrashing through three or four floors of the Widener stacks looking for a thesis topic now have a concise and authoritative bibliography for introductory knowledge of the fundamental problems and the major scholarship in forty-two fields of history. It will enable students to survey intelligently an area of potential interest as economically as possible...
...field of concentration. He would have to have the expository skill to write a lengthy paper without the benefit of an extra year's experience. He would have to take enough departmental courses in his first two years to be able to choose and research a thesis topic intelligently. But such students do exist...
Before answering questions, the Senator delighted his audience for more than an hour with his assigned topic: a vigorous denunciation of the Radcial Right. He charged right-wing extremists with "a general debasement of political dialogue on every level" and said they posed a real threat through "personal intimidations, ruined reputations, and telephone guerilla campaigns...