Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...author and receive its illuminating charge from the quality of that contact. This is, of course, self-indulgence led to an often abrading extreme. But on the other hand, self-indulgence, coupled with with, passion, and intelligence, has always been the touchstone of the successful essayist. "Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and stamina to write essays" advised E.B. White. Didion's collected pieces in The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem frankly do not purport to be objective social history, and we would be missing the point to regard them as such. Rather...
Philip A. Kuhn, professor of History and of Each Asian Languages and Civilizations--who teaches Historical Study A-13 with Benjamin I. Schwartz, Williams Professor of History and Political Science--yesterday called Reischauer "an irreplaceable person." But he added that he and Schwartz would deliver Reischauer's usual four or five lectures in the Core course...
...typical national poll will question fewer than 1,500 people in the entire country. This week 1,000 people in New York State will be interviewed in person for an hour each. The interviewers have been known to fire as many as 150 questions at each subject. The reason: Caddell is trying for a full understanding of the mind-set of the typical voter, and even more, searching for small clues as to what could change...
...Britain, American N.U.C. courses rely more on assigned reading than on their half-hour TV programs, which are designed to maintain a high level of interest among stay-at-home students. Chatty, first-person handbooks, specially written for the course by such noted teachers as Oxford Historian J.P.V.D. Balsdon and Archaeologist Peter Salway, a regional director of the Open University, guide students in their reading of original source material. On page 44 of one handbook, for instance, Balsdon notes briskly, "I cannot imagine your having the time" to read all 77 pages on the Emperor Augustus, but he adds...
...stolidly relentless vehicle of Marxism lumbers through history toward the light, its honored cargo has always been a rather dense abstraction called "the proletariat." But Karl Marx never lavished much bourgeois sentimentality on the proletariat in person, on real workers as individuals. In their private correspondence, Marx and Engels even referred to them as "stupid asses...