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Harvard University Press is publishing the bibliographies. It has already sold other libraries about 500 of each of the 13 volumes in print so far. Each volume covers one large subject area, such as Africa or twentieth-century Russian literature...
...event, disentangling the universities, the corporations, and the government would be a difficult task. For as John Kenneth Galbraith as-tutely argues in The New Industrial State--and his observations are not particularly original in this respect--the twentieth century has witnessed a growing dependence of both politicians and businessmen on academic talent...
...assumed the role of a pioneer, a twentieth century Whitman, not only in the exploitation of untraditional themes but also in the development of a style that takes no cue from any predecessor--not even from Whitman. He takes enormous risks in his wriitng. He likes to quote Randolph Bourne: "The trouble with American culture is that the American artist is never allowed to make any mistakes. Poets today are afraid of gambling." He adds thoughtfully, "You have to get out on the edge and thread that very thin line between the predictable and the impossible, the ordinary...
When the history of the United States in the twentieth century is written, the City of Boston is going to deserve an ugly chapter all its own--and the most painful paragraphs within that chapter will be those which describe the educational genocide being carried out to this day with the full knowledge of many people within the Boston Public Schools...
...united Nigeria will, of course, place Ibos and Hausas side by side once more. It is clear that until the Hausas enter the modern world and acquire skills to compete with Ibos, there can be no harmony. The federal government must educate its people into the twentieth century--accomplish the essential task of modernization. This is why Africa's leaders have watched Nigeria's agony so carefully...