Word: diffusionism
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Pusey's letter raises the traditional argument that ROTC civilianizes the military and thus serves a democratic purpose. It is an argument which originated in the 1920's and 1930's, when the relatively simple level of training required for military duties still permitted something approximating a true citizen army...
Across the Volga. According to Lockard, several factors disqualify the rat as an experimental animal. The first is that the laboratory rat, originally Rattus norvegicus and an indigene of Asia, crossed the Volga River into Europe only 250 years ago. On history's ample scale, it is a newcomer...
Under Miller's tutelage this idealism grew naturally into the view that the most worthy object of historical study is human consciousness. His concern is not for the great system-builders and the source of their thought, but for the vitality and diffusion of ideas themselves. His archives are the...
Sir: The Basque language [Sept. 6] has intrigued me ever since I heard of Maurice Ravel's pride in his ability to speak this mysterious tongue. But there now exists a work which offers an explanation of its origin that is as intriguing as the former mystery: Dravidian Origins...
In this production, the effort and matter-of-factness instilled in the love scenes lend to even-out the wildly different qualities tossed-about in the play (and Schmidt's notes concede this diffusion) in favor of repetitious and uninteresting mannerism. About the middle of the second act we begin...