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In a convocation speech at the Center last May, Field suggested that astronomy may soon arrive at a major "intellectual synthesis"--"With an impact rivalling that of the Darwinian theory of biological evolution, it may be able to account for all the structures in the universe, from quasars to planets...
HARVARD SEEMS TO HOLD an odd fascination for Harper's. This month, the magazine has followed last year's much-vaunted "Harvard on the Way Down?" by Nelson Aldrich with an article on Radcliffe by Diana Trilling, called "Daughters of the Middle Class." Although the coincidence is probably accidental, Trilling...
The college's role in society has changed radically since the '20s, of course. Now, as Trilling points out, the educational system is perceived as a mechanism for "making restitution to the minorities for the deprivations and injustices they suffered in the evolution of the American middle class," rather than...
Ismael, a political science professor at the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) is the author of several previous books on Middle Eastern politics. He offers a concise guide to the labyrinthine "Arab Left" and its evolution into what he identifies--unclearly until almost the end of the book--as the...
Ismael traces the evolution of leftist political organization from the Arab nationalist movement of the pre-World War II era--essentially an elitist, liberalist, Western-looking intellectual discipline--to the growth of socialist doctrine in the Arab world. He is careful to dissociate Arab "socialism" and "communism" from their terminological...