Word: diffusionism
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Erik Erikson, one of the idols of this college generation (his books are required reading at 800 colleges), coined the term "identity crisis" to describe the internal revolution experienced at this time of life. Probably few terms have come back to haunt their progenitor more perniciously than this one. Whenever...
For at least a decade, the nuclear-weapon and missile-development programs have been top-priority items for Peking, and are generously supplied with scarce capital equipment and even scarcer trained manpower. China is rich in the raw materials of the nuclear age, even used to export uranium ore to...
In colonial Williamsburg, where Thomas Jefferson submitted a visionary plan for common schools that would provide for "more general diffusion of knowledge" in 1779, Lyndon Johnson last week called the persistence of worldwide illiteracy one of "the shocking facts of the 20th century." Eloquently addressing some 150 of the world...
The lectures are models of diffusion and infusion, delivered in a free-wheeling metaphoric style. Literature and life dissolve in a curious amalgam. At one time or another this fall, the peripatetic Finley was inspired to comment on pre-med students, suburbs, roller skates, Barbar the Elephant, and Vietnam. He...
Died. Moses Hadas, 66, classical scholar and teacher, a slight, puckish Southerner with a flowing white beard and mustache who believed that the classics grew musty not in their content but in dated translations and interpretations, spent a lifetime renewing them in more than 30 highly esteemed books (including Hellenistic...