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volume xxxiv number three spring 1969 PHI BETA KAPPA APPOINTS VISITING SCHOLARS FOR 1969-70
who have Plans are being formulated for the 1969- These are the ten scholars 70 series of visits of the Phi Beta Kappa been selected. Visiting Scholars. Ten scholars have been appointed for the coming college year. Robert F. Byrnes visits will be Approximately eighty Now Distinguished Professor of History scheduled to institutions with chapters of and director of the International Affairs Phi Beta Kappa. At each school he visits, Center at Indiana University, Mr. Byrnes the Scholar spends two days on campus, was chairman of the history department seminar taking part in classroom and there from 1958 to 1965, and was di with stu discussions, meeting informally rector of the University's Russian and dents and faculty and giving at least one East European Institute from 1959 to more formal address under auspices, 1962. He has also been on the faculty such as a convocation or other public at Rutgers University and Swarthmore program is now in its occasion. The College. Mr. Byrnes is the author of fourteenth year and is highly regarded for Anti-Semitism in Modern France: The Walter J. S.J. its success in to the schools Ong, bringing Prologue to the Dreyfus Affair, Bibliog scholars of first rank who have com raphy of American Publications on East municated their knowledge and enthu Pobedo- Central Europe, 1945-57, and siasm to their audiences. nostsev: His Life and Thought.
In addition to the regular Visiting Scholar Charles Frankel series, an innovation in the program will be introduced this year. Dr. and Mrs. Mr. Frankel has recently returned to Columbia where he has been George Beadle, the noted geneticist and University professor of since 1956. From Nobel prize-winner and his author-wife, philosophy 1965 to 1967 he served as Assistant Sec will speak as a team under Phi Beta retary of State for educational and cul Kappa auspices. Since their heavy sched tural affairs and as chairman of the U.S. ules limit them to three engagements, Delegation to the UNESCO General are the Scholar pro they joining Visiting Conference in 1966. He is the author of gram on an experimental basis. Their The Faith of Reason, The Case for first joint appearance will be at Beloit Modern Man, The Democratic Pros College in October. pect, and Education and the Barricades. Robert F. Byrnes
Victor Lange Roy F. Nichols James A. Sykes www.pbk.org and at uni Walter R. Goldschmidt of London and Copenhagen and versities in Germany, Scandinavia, professor of anthropology and Currently Australia. Mr. Howard is the author of chairman of the department at U.C.L.A., The Connecticut Wits, Herman Melville: Mr. Goldschmidt has also been visiting A Biography, Victorian Knight-Errant: lecturer at the University of California A Study of the Early Literary Career of at and at Stanford and Harvard Mind" Berkeley James Russell Lowell, and "The Universities. In 1961-62 he was with the of Jonathan Edwards. Cultural Ecology Project in East Africa. He is the author of As You Sew, Ways Victor Lange of Justice, Comparative Functionalism, John N. Woodhull Professor of Modern and Kambuya's Cattle: The Legacy of an Languages and chairman of the depart African Herdsman. His special interests ment of German at Princeton University, are the ecology of primitive peoples, Mr. Lange taught earlier at Cornell Uni theory of cultural evolution and the an versity, where he was chairman of the thropology of American culture. department of German studies, 1945-57. Jack H. Hexter Julian N. Hartt This summer he will be Fulbright lec turer at the University of Melbourne, Mr. Hartt is Noah Porter professor of Australia. He was first vice-president of philosophy and theology, and chairman the Modern Language Association of of religious studies at Yale University, America and is now president of the where he has also served as director International Association of Germanists. of graduate studies in religion. He has He is the author of Modern German taught at Berea College, and is co-author Literature and a member of Studies in of Humanism vs. Theism, Being Known Eighteenth Century Fiction. He has re and Being Revealed, A Christian Critique cently edited Goethe: Twentieth Century of American Culture, and Theology, the View and Humanistic Scholarship in Church, and the University. America.
Jack H. Hexter Roy F. Nichols Director of the Yale Parliamentary Diary Project and professor of history at Mr. Nichols is professor of history Yale University since 1964, Mr. Hexter emeritus at the University of Pennsyl taught previously at Washington Uni vania where he was dean of the graduate 1952- Leon Howard versity, where he was chairman of the school of arts and sciences from history department from 1957 to 1960. In 1966 and vice provost from 1953-1966. 1966-67 he was a fellow of the Center He served as president of the Associa for Advanced Study in the Behavioral tion of Graduate Schools in 1964, chair Sciences. Mr. Hexter is the author of man of the Council of Graduate Schools The Reign of King Pym, More's Utopia, in 1965, and as chairman of the Social The Biography of an Idea, and Reap Science Research Council 1949-1953. In praisals in History. He is co-editor of 1949 Mr. Nichols was awarded the The Complete Works of Thomas More Pulitzer Prize in history. He is the au and general editor of The Traditions of thor of The Disruption of American 1854- the Western World. Democracy, The Stakes of Power, 1877, America Yesterday and Today Leon Howard (with C. A. Beard and W. C. Bagley), Now serving as professor of English at The Growth of American Democracy U.C.L.A., Mr. Howard has also been (with Jeanette P. Nichols), Religion and Visiting Professor at Tokyo University, American Democracy and many other the Centre Universitaire Mediterranean, books and articles on American history. and Fulbright lecturer at the Universities (continued on back cover)
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THE KEY REPORTER www.pbk.org The National Humanities Faculty After One Year by Arleigh D. Richardson III, Director
Since its inception a year ago the National Humanities Facul kis, an outstanding teacher from the Chapel Hill system, as ty has become an operating project with five pilot programs well as Professor David Tyack from the University of Illinois. this year and fifteen planned for the academic year 1969-70. From all reports, an eager group of Gainesville teachers has The National Endowment for the Humanities and the S and been given strong encouragement by the NHF representatives, H Foundation (which supplied matching funds for the grant) and there are more to follow. have indicated their continuing strong interest and have promised financial support as well as help in seeking addi During the week of March 10-14 the Minneapolis schools tional funds to enable the NHF to grow. were visited by a team consisting of Mr. David Bazelon, a writer; Mr. Martin Friedman, Director of the Walker Art Center; Professor Charles Keller of CCNY and Professor From its actual beginning in March 1968, the National Hu James Silver of Notre Dame. with the theme, "How manities has organized projects in Geor Dealing Faculty Gainesville, Revolt," Can the Humanities Speak to Youth in this group gia; Grosse Pointe, Michigan; Minneapolis, Minnesota; San met with various gatherings of students and teachers in four Francisco, California; and the area of greater Utica, New of the Minneapolis high schools throughout the week, and York. On the assumption that the greatest success would was warmly received. come in programs which originated with the schools rather than being superimposed, proposals were solicited, and in Grosse Pointe is just in the process of being visited by Saul June 1968, these projects were chosen by the NHF Board for Alinsky, the community organizer; Cornelius Golightly of the challenges implicit in their aims, their need, and their the University of Wisconsin; Bartlett Hayes, Director of the individual geographical and social situations. Addison Gallery of American Art; Dean John Silber of the University of Texas; and Bernard Weisberger of American no report as such an NHF team All five pilot projects have now been in operation for several Heritage. There is yet, but should generate a high degree of interest. months, and while it is still too early for any concrete evalua tion of results, certain conclusions are quite evident from Francisco school system turned out to the experience of this first year. First, the responses of nearly The needs of the San of problems all the two-hundred-odd people nominated for the Board were be rather different from the others because the with the size and of a large urban almost embarrassingly enthusiastic. These were mostly dis associated complexity tinguished college and school teachers and administrators system. It was necessary to open lines of communication be tween some able but discouraged teachers of the from all over the country. They recognized the urgent need of very their administrators. With NHF leverage and the schools in this area, approved of the approach, and were humanities and consultation has been and imaginative eager for the opportunity to give their services to this effort. continuing this done, plans are drawn the San Francisco teachers and ad Secondly, the responses of schools have been very numerous. being by To date there have been more than 500 inquiries and 76 ministrators for further involvement with the members of the Faculty. actual proposals. They have come from forty-two of the states and two from abroad. Thirdly, the reactions of those invited In visits to the I also been heartened to serve as members of the Faculty have been equally encour my schools, have by the value on a personal level of these encounters aging, especially in view of the fact that selection could not striking between the school teachers and the Faculty. One be made by the Board until October. The Faculty are very secondary busy people with long range commitments, who have been recalls the reaction almost of incredulity on the part of asked to devote four or five days each to the program on this groups of teachers in various places who found it hard to be lieve that scholars of real should extremely short notice. Refusals of invitations have been rare distinction be interested indeed, again indicating great interest in the work of NHF. in their problems and be willing to meet them on an equal footing. And a common reaction on the part of NHF Faculty members, as they have put in a full and busy day in a partic The projects themselves, while still in progress, already show ular school for the first time, is one of astonishment that evidence of considerable accomplishment. In the Utica area, the school teachers can stand the pace day after day. the program had an exciting start with the visit of Irven DeVore, Harvard anthropologist, during the week of January It would be foolish to pretend that all is perfection. At 20. The NHF Director accompanied him on the first day times there has been confusion in the schools as to our pur of his visit, and observed great stimulation of teachers and pose in being there; we encounter some questioning as to the students by this brilliant young man who quite evidently suc importance of the humanities in our technological age, etc. ceeded in conveying what anthropology has to say about many On the whole, however, I believe that in the five pilot pro contemporary issues such as race and how anthropology as grams we are achieving much that is of value, and are also a discipline is both a science and a humanity. Subsequent learning a great deal in the process. visits from professors Max Black of Cornell, and Lynn White of U.C.L.A. at Cornell this year) have given rise (visiting Plans have already beerr made for the evaluation of this to great enthusiasm, and the local press has followed equally year's work consisting of the following: 1 ) as much obser the project in some detail. vation as feasible by the Director, 2) a conference in May to review the project, 3) as much recording as possible by Hard- Gainesville, Georgia has had visits from Professor O. B. audio and video tape, film, etc., of the actual NHF-school Rash- ison of North Carolina, accompanied by Mrs. Melvin encounters, and 4) a system of weighing, editing, and sum-
SPRING, 1969 www.pbk.org marizing these activities. Mrs. Janet NEW SIBLEY FELLOW POLITICS Hanley, an experienced member of the SCIENCE Harvard Office of Tests staff is working Miss Marcia Esther Weinstein has been MUSIC ECONOMICS with the Director on this aspect of the awarded the Mary Isabel Sibley Fellow program. The two-day conference ship for 1969-70. The award was made PAINTING RELIGION planned for late in May is to be attended this year in the field of Greek studies. by the NHF Board, the Faculty, and Miss Weinstein's special area of interest LITERATURE HISTORY representatives from the five pilot school is Greek papyrology. She will spend her systems. The purpose of this conference year as a Sibley fellow at the Institute FOREIGN POLICY will be to assess this first year's experi of Classical Studies and University Col to determine directions for the lege, London, first editions of ence, preparing SOCIAL RELATIONS future, and to make plans for systematic several Greek papyri. These are in the evaluation in the schools at the earliest Oxyrhynchus collection of the Egypt feasible moment. Exploration Society and are a valuable Richard Rovere source of information about ancient At a stage it became apparent very early literature and history. Kenneth Keniston schools' that the chief concern in the general area of humanities is for the es Miss Weinstein, a native of Portland, Jacques Barzun tablishment or improvement of interdis Oregon, received her B.A. from Pem Alfred Kazin ciplinary courses called Humanities. broke College and her M.A. from Brown Clearly a movement is underway through University. She is completing her doc Oscar Handlin out the country to combine the teaching toral studies at Harvard University where Robert Heilbroner of certain disciplines in new ways which her dissertation will consist of first edi will mean more to the present genera tions of papyri she has been studying Douglas Bush tion. and large there are two pri during the past year in London. By Loren mary goals in such courses; first, to help Eiseley Next year the fellowship will be offered students understand that there is a Shannon for French studies. Candidates must be William fundamental unity to human knowledge, unmarried women between 25 and 35 an important concept in our age of spe Phyllis McGinley years of age who hold the doctorate or cialization and fragmentation, and sec who have fulfilled all the requirements Paul Sears ond, to approach with renewed vigor and for the doctorate except the dissertation. insights those areas of study which have Louis Simpson They must be planning to devote full-time to do with value systems and decision work to research during the fellowship Fitts making. Although the NHF has by no Dudley year which begins September 1, 1970. means abandoned its intention of work B. H. Haggin Further information and application ing with schools in the individual disci forms may be obtained by writing to R. Buckminster Fuller plines of the humanities, it finds itself the Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship Com for the moment working almost entirely mittee, Phi Beta Kappa, 1811 Q Street, Walter Kerr within this interdisciplinary movement, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009. because this is where the schools want David Riesman our help. Because the movement clearly Wallich has great potential, the NHF has been Henry encouraging it and trying to help schools THREE NEW BOOK REVIEWERS Marston Bates keep the standard of intellectual integrity The Key Reporter welcomes three new George Boas high. members to the Book Committee. Their
For the second year of operation the reviews appear for the first time in this Outstanding scholars and writers bring you in NHF has received a renewal of its grant issue. Frederick J. Crosson, professor of their ideas on a broad range of topics each issue of THE AMERICAN from the National Endowment for the Philosophy at Notre Dame University, quarterly SCHOLAR. In addition, you'll find reviews Humanities. Plans are underway to work will recommend books in religion and of important new books, poetry, and Joseph in fifteen schools, triple the number of the philosophy. Andrew professor of Gyorgy, Wood Krutch's popular column on men first year. The staff will be expanded at Wash International Affairs George and mankind. somewhat to meet the increased load, and ington will contribute reviews University, Subscribe now at a special introductory we will be fortunate in the serv in that field. Andreas M. having Kazamias, rate $4.00 for a full year's subscription of a Ford a professor of Studies ices Leadership Fellow, Educational Policy (four issues). You save 20% of the regular merit assigned to the teacher of unusual at the University of Wisconsin, will select subscription price. NHF by that program for the value of books in the area of education. the experience he will gain from working with us. The American Scholar Perhaps one measure of success is the of schools where we can obviously 1811 Q St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009 continued enthusiasm on the part of the never work in person. Such interest on NHF Board and Faculty. Ideas are gen the part of astonishingly large numbers Please enter my subscription to the Scholar for a full year (four for just $4.00. erated faster than we could possibly put of people will carry the program far I am issues) indeed secure ade and given the high of the them into practice or sure, quality ? Payment enclosed ? Bill me quate funding to do so. They range from suggestions and plans, we should certain able them establishing NHF Fellowships to bring ly be to find the funds to put Name with us practice. must for outstanding teachers to work into Indeed, we do so, StreeL for a year, to video taping important the realization is growing in our schools encounters between our Faculty and that the humanities are extremely im City .State. -Z'P- groups of teachers so that the experience portant, and the response to any help can could be transmitted to large numbers we give is moving indeed. THE KEY REPORTER www.pbk.org Canaanite civilization appears to have both
structured and distorted the religious ex Greco- perience of the Israelites, much as recommended the book committee Roman culture did later for the earlier reading by Christians. Written primarily for the spe but accessible to the interested GUY A. CALDWELL, ROBERT B. HEILMAN, cialist, humanities reader. FREDERICK J. CROSSON LEONARD W. FREDERICK DOOB, B. ARTZ, Essays on Frege. Edited by E. D. Klemke. social sciences LAWRENCE H. CHAMBERLAIN, ANDREW GYORGY, Illinois. $10. EARL W. COUNT, ANDREAS M. KAZAMIAS, Three essays by and thirty one essays on Aristotle. LOUIS C. HUNTER, RICHARD BEALE DAVIS the greatest logician since They are grouped into studies of Frege's ontology, natural sciences MARSTON BATES, KIRTLEY F. MATHER sematics, logic and philosophy of mathe matics. ROBERT B. HEILMAN themes, and techniques, a dictionary of Reflective Theology: Philosophical Orienta Hardy characters and scenes, a glossary of The Concise of Theatre. Phyllis tions in Religion. Thomas N. Munson. History dialectal words, an annotated bibliography, Hartnoll. Abrams Art Paperbacks. $3.95. Yale. $6. some 60 illustrations, and 12 maps. Twelve short but informative chapters on the A young philosopher's attempt to assay the major periods of western drama from the This Timeless Moment:, A Personal View of foundations for theological discourse which Greeks to the contemporary. Over 250 ex Aldous Huxley. Laura Archera Huxley. are available today. If occasionally cursory, cellent illustrations, many in color. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. $6.95. it sifts the approaches which have endured The second Mrs. Huxley describes Huxley's modern philosophy's school of suspicion and Shakespeare's Early Tragedies. Nicholas personality as she knew it from 1956 to blends them elegantly with the perspectives Brooke. Barnes & Noble. $5.25. 1963, when he died. Quotations from letters, of the history of religion. Unostentatious but perceptive and original tapes, and an unfinished novel fill out the essays on form, theme, and tone in six The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy. portrait of Huxley as gentle and affectionate tragedies from Titus Andronicus to Indiana. Hamlet, man and seeker after spiritual values. To Hugh Kenner. $5. treated as unique works rather than generic The increasing, simulation of what is human him, the use of psychedelic drugs meant exemplars. Work." machines as well as men is here explored "No dropping out from Love and by with wit and finesse in a fashion at once Jane Austen's Art of Allusion. Kenneth L. Lyrical and Critical Essays. Albert Camus. scholarly, metaphysical and ironic. The trail Moler. Nebraska. $7.25. Edited and with notes by Philip Thody. from Houyhnhnms to computers passes A sensible, that not ex low-key study only Translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. through Vaucanson, Babbage and Buster amines the context popular of plot and char Knopf. $6.95. 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The descriptions A score of shibboleths about Greek tragedy The breakdown of the unconsummated six- are and interred and a new are balanced and coherent and only seldom neatly surely year marriage of John and Effie poetics is developed and put to the text of Ruskin, dip to mere entries of names and sects. Effie's flight, the annulment, and the later texts. Mr. Kaufmann is armed with but Men in Dark Times. Hannah Arendt. Har marriage of Effie and Millais are told in a never encumbered by the scholarship of his Brace & World. $5.95. series of family letters most of which are court, predecessors, and his approach to the trage A collection of eleven essays and articles published for the first time. The editor pro dies themselves is as fresh and direct as one on notable men and vides good connective material and annota women, contemporary could wish. tions. except for Lessing, all but one of which have appeared in English previously. Miss ANDREAS M. KAZAMIAS George Eliot: A Biography. Gordon S. Arehendt, in discussing them as public 110 Livingston Street: Politics and Bureauc Haight. Oxford. $12.50. figures, illumines by contrast the darkling racy in the New York City School System. The life of a woman with the mind, the nature of the public realm in our age. David Rogers. Random House. $8.95. and ex are talent, the personality, the difficult Especially interesting the pieces on Rogers' Mr. perceptive and well-documented periences of George Eliot should be con Lessing, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. sociological analysis of the largest city school sistently interesting, and Haight's biography Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan: An His system in the United States indeed in the makes it more than that. Scholarly in care, torical Analysis of Two Contrasting Faiths. world is a devastatingly critical expose fullness, and documentation, the work has bureaucracy" William Foxwell Albright. Doubleday. $6.95. of what he calls a "sick (mu an openness and ease that make it equally The dean of American biblical archaeologists nicipal and educational) whose traditions, appealing to non-specialists. here reviews recent discoveries and marshals structure, and operations have subverted the of patient to A Hardy Companion: A Guide to the Works a remarkable range scholarship system's stated goals and prevented progress revise previous theories of Israelite history. and innovation. to Mr. Rogers of Thomas Hardy and Their Background. According pathologies" F. B. Pinion. St. Martin's. $10.95. The antiquity of Hebrew monotheism is re the "bureaucratic of the N.Y.C a of the archaic character school e. over-centralization This useful work contains an up-to-date inforced by study system, g., fragmentation," oral tradition Hebrew "vertical and horizontal biographical sketch, accounts of all the of the underlying in and the validation of the an fluence of informal pressure groups major works (with some reference to sources poetry by strong of Patriarchal law and practice. the to make com' and criticisms), sections on Hardy's ideas, tiquity tendency decisions in
SPRING, 1969 www.pbk.org treatment of the mittees, and the like, are present to one ing violence in ghettos, guerrilla warfare, were unaware that their individuals degree or another in most American big revolution, and totalitarianism. The words, experimental and control may implications of city school systems. A model for other words, words presented here so competently have been different. The this studies. and dryly do not lead us out of the wilder self-fulfilling prophecy, whether conscious or education in for placebos ness, but they make us keep groping for a not, for general, The Educational Writings of John Locke: A of hidden path which may or may not exist. in therapy, and for all kinds experiments Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes. (including ESP and animals) are not James L. AxtelJ. Cambridge. $12.50. Theory Suicide. Maurice L. Farber. Funk of modestly muted, nor should they be. An excellent annotated and critical edition & Wagnalls. $5.95. of Locke's writings on education, partic A valiant, formal, self-conscious attempt to ANDREW GYORGY ularly of his classic treatise Some Thoughts peer beneath the statistics and the conditions Education. Together with in the milieu to discover the formulas which Concerning the Expansion and Coexistence: The History of introduction, this is a contribution to West best describe the internal states of persons Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1967. Adam B. ern educational history and an illuminating who make the ultimate, irreversible decision Ulam. Praeger. $12.95. "footnote" to Western intellectual history. about themselves. Really adequate data of A distinguished student of Soviet and world In the introduction, Mr. Axtell describes course are lacking, but at least the basic communist history, professor of government Locke's own educational experiences, and he equation suicide depends upon the vul at Harvard University, produced in this book assesses Locke's treatise in relation to his nerability of the individual's personality and the most readable, interesting, comprehensive other philosophical writings and in the in his deprivations as well as upon a diminished and up-to-date version as well as perspective tellectual and historical contexts in which sense of competence and a threat to his of fifty stormy years of Soviet foreign policy. it was "conceived, written, published, and standards isolates important parameters received." widely acclaimed, this book will Two other chapters discuss and points to fruitful investigation and Already rank along with Louis Fischer's and E. H. Locke's views on scientific education and therapy. Carr's monumental studies as the appraise Pierre leading Coste's importance in the "classics" The New World Negro. Melville J. Hers- in a field beset poor scholar dissemination of Locke's ideas on the Con by and uncertain historical tinent. kovits. Minerva, p. $2.95. ship information. first- An extremely useful collection of papers Professor Ulam's work is not only a The Genius of American Education. Horace published over a period of three decades in rate survey of the crucial issues of 20th Mann Lecture, 1965. Lawrence A. Cremin. which the author energetically pioneered the century world Communism, but also an il "expansion" Pittsburgh. $2. now fashionable thesis that great segments luminating analysis of and "coexistence" An insightful and well-written interpreta of African culture survive in this hemi in Soviet foreign policy. tive essay on the unique character of the sphere (maximally in the Caribbean, Brazil, Power in the from Khrushchev to American educational experience by one of and Surinam; minimally in the U. S. A.) Kremlin, Kosygin. Michel Tatu. Viking. its most distinguished historians. and offered substantial, supporting evidence $10. and speculation. How it is these refreshing Le Monde's able correspondent has written The New University. lohn Lawlor. Colum or a anal days to read reread dispassionate a book on the delicate recent bia. $4.50. fascinating ysis of a passion-arousing subject. interplay of the Soviet Union's foreign and A collection of informative essays on new domestic decision-making process. The developments in higher education, mostly The June Bug. Alan C. Kerckhoff and Kurt French equivalent of West Germany's Wolf focusing upon the new universities of the W. Back. Appleton-Century-Crofts. $5.50, gang Leonhard, Mr. Tatu is a leading Krem- United Kingdom. The volume also includes p. $2.95. linologist with an amazing flair for and an illuminating discussion of problems of A belabored reconstruction of an imaginary, "developing" understanding of the myriad intricacies of higher education in societies and hysterical illness which beset some female Soviet and world communist politics. The case-studies of new universities in Australia workers but not others in a southern factory book is truly monumental in size and scope; and New Zealand. It provides comparative in the year 1962. This well-documented case if it has any failing at all, the only one perspective to assess innovations in Amer history delivers two blows against mass might be an overemphasis of fact and data ican higher institutions. madness: it almost tracks down enough de and an under-rating or neglect of detailed tails to convince us that social, psychological A Religious Education: Docu and scholarly analysis. History of determinism is not just another attractive ments and Interpretations from the Judaeo- delusion, and it inspires the investigators to Chrislian Tradition. Robert Ulrich. New Cuba: The Making of a Revolution. Ramon unveil no less than 15 general promising, Eduardo Massachusetts. and of "postulates" Ruiz. $6. York University University London. about such phenomena. $8.50. A professor of history at Smith College, the A careful edition with historical interpreta Encounter with Reality. Gardner Murphy author examines the history of Cuba and the tions and assessments of major religious and Herbert E. Spohn. Houghton Mifflin. temper of Cuban society under Spanish and which were also educational documents, $4.75. American rule. The strength of his analysis of which have not received the many A characteristically kaleidoscopic account of lies on the sociological, not historical, side. attention a well- scholarly they deserve, by how and why the human organism must and In this reviewer's opinion, the chapter on and teacher. Society" known scholar, philosopher, would adapt itself to the external world. To "The Splintered is truly a first-rate provides historical perspective The volume some extent, the authors and I guess, Kant examination of the corrosive effects of social for a better of and insights understanding is extolled again by being criticized "one development under a rigid, completely arbi
realities," current discussions about the relation be does apprehend they conclude, trary communist system. tween religion and the schools. "because they are the very stuff of which made"The U. N. and the Middle East 1967. one's own immediate self-awareness is Crisis, The World Educational Crisis: A Systems Arthur Lall. Columbia. $10. and indeed it is challenging to see how Analysis. H. Coombs. Oxford. $6. Philip much modern scientific research can be made A distinguished ex-diplomat, currently pro This is an ambitious undertaking. But by to support this postulated isomorphism. fessor of International Affairs at Columbia "systems anal the model known as case- applying University, presents here a fascinating ysis,"Mr. Coombs has cut the topic to more Pygmalion in the Classroom. Robert study of an ominous United Nations crisis manageable proportions and has pointed to Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson. Holt, Rine situation. Since Lall has been Indian Am structural a novel approach in studying the hart and Winston. $4.95. bassador to the U. N., he brings personal ex aspects of education comparatively. Packed A report on a brilliant experiment which periences and contacts into his lively narra with valuable information and data. demonstrated in a western primary school tive. Exceedingly well organized and lucidly
pupils' that measured IQ and achievement written, this book will prove indispensable to LEONARD W. DOOB were markedly affected by the kind of ex students of international organization. Lall's Bienen. pectations which the investigators had given approach to the Middle Eastern problem Violence and Social Change. Henry teachers the children's potentiali reflects an attitude of realism Chicago. $4.50, p. $1.25. concerning interesting paper which sum even though those teachers allegedly combined with pessimism as far as the role An extension of a working ties, theories concern had forgotten what had been told and of the United Nations is concerned. marizes the best scholarly they
THE KEY REPORTER www.pbk.org British J. B. S. Haldane was an eminent book noted just above. The reader may The New Nationalism. Louis L. Snyder. contribu biologist who made considerable wonder how Hofstadter would have treated Cornell. $11.50. and ge Nevins' tions to physiology, biochemistry Written a stu subject. by distinguished American science (and neticsand who wrote about dent of the political phenomenon of modern wide audience. He was Pacifism in the United States from the about politics) for a nationalism, this comprehensive work not cantankerous person very in Colonial Era to the First World War. Peter a difficult, defines the entire problem area but also only a low level Brock. Princeton. $18.50. telligent and industrious, with offers a valuable or "political typology or pomposity. For taxonomy" tolerance for A comprehensive of both religious of stupidity of 20th century nationalism. The study was an ardent supporter of and secular pacifism documented and dis some years he book is particularly strong on the black he continued to be in cussed for one thousand pages. Naturally communism, and nationalism of Africa and on the many Marxist ideas after he had much appears on the though there agreement with Asian and Middle Eastern variations of Quakers, with the party. Ronald Clark has "anti-colonial" is little on the numerous representatives of broken nationalism. It is too bad thresh- sympathetic of a very Dilemma" that sect in the upper South at the written a biography that the "Soviet receives such material that should hold of the Revolution. The institutional unusual man, including brief treatment and that Eastern Europe is wide of readers. aspects of periods and situations are bal be of interest to a variety only accorded a begrudging three-page anced studies of individual cases. summary. by Any The Procession Life. Alfred S. Romer. interested reader will regret that the author of World. $12.50. Alliances and American Foreign Policy. did not bring his study up to our own time. Robert E. Osgood. Johns Hopkins. $6.50. But that would have required another This is another volume in the excellent History" Robert E. Osgood, currently White House volume. "World Natural series, written by adviser on foreign policy while on leave one of the world's leading paleontologists, The American Empire. Amaury de Rien- as director of the Washington Center of so that there is no question about accurate court. Dial. $7.50. Foreign Policy Research, has written a reflection of contemporary knowledge. Ro The First and Second United States Em brief but provocative book on the basic mer has the added advantage of writing pires. Jack Ericson Eblen. Pittsburgh. $8.95. philosophic and prac book he nature, background clearly and interestingly. In this tical realities of America's alliance systems. Though these two books, as indicated in surveys the evolutionary history of ani Of particular note are the chapters dealing their titles, belong to the relatively recent mals the record of the rocks arranging Europe" "imperial" with "Alliances in and the author's school of American histories, or his text according to taxonomic categories, interesting speculations concerning "The Fu those which show our development as the from protozoa to primates. Alliances." ture of This group of essays is story of an empire, the emphases and the Richard even timelier today than it was at the time actual subjects are quite different. Eblen's In the Wake of Torrey Canyon. of writing since the Nixon Administration book sees American history in four periods Petrow. McKay. $5.95. is in a process of reaffirming the alliances or four empires, of which he undertakes to California has now learned about oil on the of the U. S., them towards discuss the first of 1787-1848 and 1848- reorienting two, and learned about First" sea; Cornwall Brittany Europe after many years of an "Asia 1890's. Jefferson as the Seeing probably it in March 1967 with the wreck of the foreign policy. first to formulate basic principles for a giant tanker Torrey Canyon. Mr. Petrow, United States colonial policy, Eblen outlines living in England, has been able to interview RICHARD BEALE DAVIS and analyzes in considerable detail the poli a great many of the people involved, both at cies and the men who made territorial The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, sea and on shore, and has written a swiftly government the principal institutional struc account the accident and Parrington. Richard Hofstadter. Knopf. moving narrative of ture of the first two empires. Paradoxes, $8.95. and its consequences including the na failures, personalities, ironies, all have their By means of a central focus on the work of tional and international legal complications. part in the shadings of this portrait, or these three most influential Progressive his He adds thoughtful discussion of the prob panorama, of our national development. torians of the earlier Twentieth Century, lems of prevention and cure. De Riencourt's canvas is larger, his time- Hofstadter offers guidelines to the whole of and-space more comprehensive. He sees Dawn of Zoology. Willy Ley. Prentice-Hall. American history and historical writing from development" "historical determined by long- George Bancroft to the present. Though the $7.95. term trends, and thus from the Puritans to author admits that he looks at these three written a of ideas F. D. R. explains personal action and public Willy Ley has history and work vantage men their from the point, about with ancient hunters events in these terms. His final chapter, "A animals, starting or disadvantaged point, of historiography Condominium," with Charles Darwin. His rather Great gives his cogent if not and ending since their time, he also assesses them in detailed treatment of the writers of the entirely convincing arguments as to how and terms of their predecessors and contempo Middle Ages (and their classical sources) why Russia and the United States, as em raries. Admirable comprehensiveness com illuminating. He pires, must and will balance the world be was, for me, particularly bines with critical depth to make this book the gradual emergence of tween them. Despite, or because of some shows nicely one of our most significant commentaries of animal from offhand and obviously inaccurate details, recognition relationships, our century. is on the American mind in It Aristotle to John and Linnaeus and the book may stimulate some more solid Ray written with and an rare sympathy equally evolutionists of the nineteenth century. writing on the subject. the perceptive realization of the rare sharply Aptly illustrated with beasts, both real and weaknesses of particular books and atti MARSTON BATES fancied, from the medieval texts. tudes. So Human an Animal. Dubos. Rene Hummingbirds and Their Flowers. Karen James Truslow Adams: Historian of the Scribner's. $6.95. A. Grant and Verne Grant. Columbia. American Dream. Allan Nevins. Illinois. Rene Dubos is learned, wise and con $17.50. $6.95. cerned. Concerned about our deteriorating is a biographical and There is one species of hummingbird This fascinating environment, our love affair with technology only major historian who in the eastern United States, compared with epistolary record of a and neglect of humanity, our failure to try written eleven in the Southwestern states, and hun wrote and thought independently, to understand the interrelationships between an intimate friend who is an dreds in the American tropics, but their and edited by man and nature. "Many books are being historian. The letters fascination is out of all proportion to their equally distinguished written on the theme 'from molecule to of in man,' numbers. The Grants have spent years study throw new light on the writing history but they have surprisingly little to say Twentieth on the of the hummingbirds of the earlier Century, Henry about man or the problems that really mat ing ecology life." Adams, Worthington C. Ford, Van Wyck ter in human Dubos has given us a California and the flowers they pollinate score of other Brooks, and a genuinely wonderfully thoughtful look at the problems and have summarized their findings in this significant figures. In one sense the book present the written al of the and future, book: a striking case of "reciprocal evolu and character of rehabilitates the reputation ways in the perspective of the past. tion", of interest to every student of natural a writer who has fallen into eclipse if not history. There are 30 color plates of the A useful and JBS: The Life and Work of J. B. S. Haldane. exactly disrepute in our time. Hofstadter's Ronald W. Clark. Coward-McCann. $6.95. birds and their flowers. entertaining complement to
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