The Fulbright Difference: 1948-1992Richard T. Arndt, David Lee Rubin For almost half a century the Fulbright Education Exchange program has given American and foreign students and scholars transnational educational experiences in every country in the world. The Fulbright Difference brings together twenty-seven of these participants, along with ten foreign alumni, in a collective effort to stimulate greater awareness of the depth of the Fulbright achievement. Fulbright scholars show how the benefits of their participation extend well beyond their foreign study. Following an earlier volume of testimonials by program participants. The Fulbright Experience, this second volume explores issues of importance for historians of society, politics, culture, Intellect, and diplomacy, as well as administrators of the Fulbright program and policymakers in all nations. The collective portrait Is a hard look at the overseas experience and Its implications for public policy. |
Contents
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THE FORTIES CREATING THE MYTH | 13 |
Burma Beginnings Fulbright and Point Four | 15 |
Other Cultures and Singular Pluralisms | 26 |
Tilting at Myths | 38 |
THE FIFTIES GROWING AND FLOWERING | 53 |
On Being French in Chicago 195051 | 56 |
Three Centuries After the Mayflower | 65 |
Hispanist at Large | 251 |
Of Crosses and Crossings | 264 |
Ugly Americans Arrogant Indians Amazing Individuals | 276 |
Behind the Curtain Lessons In and Out of School | 287 |
THE EIGHTIES SEEKING THE NEW | 297 |
Habits of the Mind | 299 |
And Where You Are Is Where You Are Not | 310 |
Circle of Light A Year in the Arctic Norway | 325 |
Marriage Fulbright Style | 77 |
Fulbright I Italy 1952 | 88 |
American Encounters Brief and Otherwise | 99 |
On Stepping into Rivers Fulbright and UN Experiences | 110 |
From Vienna with Love and Understanding | 124 |
From Fulbright to Cultural Diplomacy A Memoir of Lois Roth | 136 |
The Beginnings of American History in Italy | 149 |
Italian Intellect and Foreign Influences | 165 |
THE SIXTIES WEATHERING CRISIS | 177 |
A Brief Essay on Truth | 180 |
Fulbright Kicks | 194 |
Learning Equality and Democracy | 207 |
Fulbright the Humanities and Humankind | 215 |
The Mission That Binds | 226 |
An Afterword | 232 |
The Fulbright Moment Voyages Through Values | 236 |
THE SEVENTIES SURVIVING CHANGE | 249 |
Notes from Rootstown | 340 |
Transformation by Design | 348 |
Exchanges and Excursions in France | 361 |
Germany Remembered and Reconsidered | 372 |
Letter from Lisbon | 384 |
Hang Right at the Cow Teacher in India | 396 |
Fulbrighting on Africas Roof | 410 |
Poland During After and Later | 419 |
FrontLine Journalist | 433 |
The Difference in Malawi | 448 |
199091 LOOKING AHEAD | 457 |
Coming to Terms with International American Studies | 459 |
Afterword | 470 |
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