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This appeal for the mass analysis of a segment of the coming generation of historians is contained in the summary of what is probably the crucial essay in the book, "History and Psychoanalyis: The Explanation of Motive." In this essay, Hughes proposes that perhaps "psychoanalysis can help history to cope with its supreme difficulty--the motivation of great historical actors of the past." This is at once the best and the most uneven of the chapters--uneven in the sense that it is brilliantly lucid and brilliantly erratic in close turn...
...great person is one who contains a wide segment of humanity and more than his moment in time. Wyeth is such a person...
...Rowan, one of three Negro U.S. ambassadors, sees a broader implication in the success of individual Negroes. "Every Negro American in a position of responsibility who discharges his duty faithfully and well, whose conduct is laudable, is making a real contribution to the struggle by bringing along a segment of the white population," he says. "However, he is also obliged to speak out where speaking is called...
...resultant sound has pleased critics from Novosibirsk to Ann Arbor, where the group opened the Middle Western segment of its two-month U.S. tour last week. The New York Times found Barshai's strings "a core of cast iron overlaid with silver." Later, a three-night stand at Carnegie Hall was sold out-largely because Russia's great father and son violinists, David and Igor Oistrakh, appeared on the program. But Barshai's group did not suffer in comparison...
Henry S. Kahn '64, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Club, indicated last night that the lecture may be sponsored by a group of individuals representing a larger segment of the University than the Socialist Club alone...