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...persisted in seeing a kind of capital of sovereignty, a last resort and farseeing leader, is by no means an impersonal one. Who else but De Gaulle could lead France in this fashion? If there is any one else, the General does not name him. Implicit in his entire work is the assumption that he alone is France's Man of Destiny; that, like Joan of Arc, he is unique and irreplaceable...
Harvard and Yale do differ significantly, however, in one little-known corner of university work. Both schools support Chinese studies, by means of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and Yale-in-China. But in its origins and current policies, Yale-in-China draws upon a concept of education quite distinct from that utilized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute...
Late 19th-century missionary fervor provided the impetus for Yale-in-China. Established immediately before the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, this school was, according to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, "a work through which the bright conscience and warm heart of America could shine in splendor." Religious interest played a much less important role when Harvard-Yenching was established in 1928. According to its charter, it exists "to conduct and provide research, instruction and publication in the culture of China..."In accordance with these aims, the Harvard-Yenching Institute has concentrated upon advancing Chinese scholarship-not upon training doctors...
...MacDonald's thesis is essentially simple (particularly simple if one discards the watery historical analysis which so unnecessarily bloats his work). According to Mr. MacDonald there are three kinds of culture: 1. Lowbrow (including most movies, almost all television, Life, The Saturday Evening Post). 2. Highbrow (the paintings in art museums, most literature studied in universities, The Partisan Review). 3. Middlebrow (which, being the subject actually of his entire piece, will require a paragraph...
...might even be tempted to say that Mr. MacDonald has not gone far enough; that he has concentrated upon some of the more obvious manifestations of the great unconscious middlebrow conspiracy, and left many of the more arcane, insidious attitudes unexamined, free to work upon his imperiled contemporaries...