Black Studies at Harvard, by Henry Rosovsky, THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR

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Black Studies at Harvard

Personal Reflections Concerning Recent Events

by Henry Rosovsky

The American Scholar, Autumn 1969, pp. 562-572

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    4. Rainy Christmas by Robert Morgan, p. 40
    5. Charles Fourier: Prophet of Eupsychia by Daniel Bell, pp. 41-58
    6. The Apocalypse of Norman O. Brown by Richard W. Noland, pp. 59-68
    7. On Levi-Strauss and Existentialism by David Michael Levin, pp. 69-82
    8. Between the New Year and the Snow by Lawrence Raab, p. 83
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    6. Best Seller by X.J. Kennedy, pp. 248-249
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