The Fulbright Difference: 1948-1992

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Richard T. Arndt, David Lee Rubin
Transaction Publishers, Jan 1, 1993 - Education - 490 pages

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

Introduction
1
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
INDEXES
477
Organizations and Institutions
479
Participants and People
483
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