Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vinh Long '68 is head of the Vietnam Resource Center, a Cambridge-based organization publishing information on Vietnam. A graduate student in his seventh year. Long is the author of Before the Revolution, a collection of Vietnamese writings on French rule with an introductory analysis. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese and Vietnamese studies. Long talks briefly about his personal experiences as a Vietnamese, concentrating instead on more general aspects of the war, such as the problems American intervention caused in Southeast Asia and the difficulties Vietnamese refugees will encounter assimilating into Western society...
...trim man with closely-cropped red hair slips in shortly afternoon, and works his way to the front. His freckles and bright eyes make him seem younger than 37, and his subdued demeanor seems more appropriate to a new grad student than to the nation's leading historian of Vietnam. So the students continue talking as he erases the board--careful not to touch the now sacred directions of an exam long ago, which commanded students to "Do Problem 2a only." Finally, he turns, still unnoticed, and faces his audience...
...begins an anecdote reflecting American ignorance of Cambodian customs, and laugh out loud at the end. They remember why they signed on for a semester of late lunches. Their lecturer is Alexander B. Woodside, Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History, and his course is "The History of Modern Vietnam...
Like many Harvard courses, Woodside's lectures have acquired a one-word name--"Vietnam." It means that History 1821 is the place to learn Vietnamese history, to start making sense out of an insane war. Since 1969, undergraduates, Nieman Fellows, and visitors to the University have flocked to Woodside's low-key lectures, which draw eloquence more from his careful preparation than his quiet delivery. The listeners leave as Woodside fans, and praise him to their friends, so that since 1969, Woodside's reputation has been steadily swelling...
...patiently answered dozens of phone calls from journalists who wanted his analysis, but he did nothing to exploit the flurry of attention. Instead, he has continued his studies of East Asian history, quietly and steadily, as oblivious to political timeliness as he was in 1963, when he "discovered" Vietnam...