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Even the organizers of the Caucus were surprised (and elated) to find such strong and vocal opposition to U.S. policies in Asia among the 400 scholars at the meeting. The Caucus represented one third of the 1200 gathered in Philadelphia for the twentieth annual convention of the Association of Asian Studies. The Caucus, however, was held completely outside the auspices of the AAS. It was chaired by John K. Fairbank, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and unofficial dean of Asian Studies in this country...
SAUL STEINBERG plays with your mind. In his world, ornate vases tower over insubstantial people while gunny sacks and trash cans become city streets. His work is intimately contemporary, deliberately shirking any monumentality. With a draughtsman's feeling for line and form, a unique vision of twentieth century civilization and a not unsympathetic sense of satire, he fuses visual and psychological worlds...
INFORMATION about Harvard College for Prospective Students spends four pages extolling the virtues of the Houses--"Harvard's answer to the problem of maintaining a collegiate way of living in a twentieth century college...
Myrdal, whose American Dilemma, published in 1944, remains the classic study of the U.S. Negro, was assigned by the Twentieth Century Fund to undertake a definitive study of South Asia's problems and prospects. The job took him ten years, including three spent traveling in the area, and his findings fill three volumes and 2,500 pages. Impatient with the Western tendency to defer to the heightened sensitivities of South Asian leaders and thereby pull their critical punches, Myrdal tells it like he sees it. Many of his conclusions will not only depress Westerners concerned about the area...
...twentieth century, sadly, there is very little which is apart from politics. In the past two weeks, 38 nations--predominately from black Africa--have made viable threats to boycott the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City. Angered over apartheid South Africa's readmission to competition, the African nations have taken their political protest into the world of athletics...