THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN EUROPEPROSPECTUS FOR THE FIRST SESSIONThe First Session will take place from I June 1947 through 30 June 1947 at Schloss Fyrmian, Salzburg, Austria (American Zone). Meals and lodging at Schloss Fyrmian will be provided at no charge. Participants are requested to bring their own towels and bedclothes (sheets, blankets or sleeping bags) and to arrange their own transportation to Salzburg. A vehicle from the Schloss will meet all trains arriving at the Hauptbahnhof Salzburg on I June 1947. A copy of this invitation, bearing
the name of the participant and the endorsement of the 7753rd Military
Government Detachment, United States Army, will be sufficient documentation
to admit such participant (properly identified by a Passport or Identity
Card) to the United States Zone of Austria at the following entry points
only:
Participants who experience difficulty in obtaining any travel permission required in their own country should contact Mr. Peter Devereaux
The following invited participant at the First Session of the American Academy in Europe is authorized to enter the U.S. Zone Austria between I June 1947 and 30 June 1947: NAME:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
U.S. Forces Austria
7753 MiL Gov. Det. APO 54I (Land Salzburg) George W. Tyson, Jr.
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THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN EUROPECOURSE OUTLINE FOR FIRST SESSION
The Session will divide itself generally into three aspects of American civilization, which will be presented concurrently:
While participants are invited to bring any books they like, the Academy has attempted to collect an adequate library. Some of the books on the reading lists have been selected (in preference to other titles) because it was easier to obtain copies. Nevertheless, there will be some inevitable shortages, and a certain amount of sharing will be necessary. There will be no examinations. ALL PARTICIPANTS HAVE BEEN ADVISED THAT A THOROUGH READING KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS A PREREQUISITE TO ATTENDANCE AT THIS SESSION, AND WILL BE ASSUMED. |
Outline I. AMERICAN HISTORYProfessor Boswell Hyde, Harvard UniversityThe main purpose of this course will be to acquaint European scholars with the most important trends in the history of the American people and to introduce some of the best American historical writing. The development of ideas and institutions -political, social and economic- will be stressed rather than the accumulation of data about particular events. Lectures will deal with such topics as
America First vs. Lend-Lease;
All participants will be expected to read either Charles A. & Mary Beard The Rise of American Civilization (New York, 1927) or Allan. Nevins and Henry Steele Commager The Pocket History of the United States (New York, 1943) plus two of the following: Frederick Jackson Turner The Rise of the New West 1819 - 1829 (New York, 1906) Arthur M. Schlesinger Political and Social Growth Of the UnitedStates 1852 - 1933 (Rev. Ed. New York, 1937) Henry Adams The Formative Years. The History of the UnitedStates of America during the Administration of Jefferson andMadison (Rev. Ed., condensed and edited by Herbert Agar. Boston, 1947) Allan Nevins The Emergence of Modem America 1865 - 1878(New York, 1927) Walter Millis, The Road to War, America 1914 - 1917 (Boston, 1935) Bemard De Voto, The Year of Decision: 1846 (Boston, 1943) Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Jackson (New York, 1945) Boswell Hyde Fremont and the Dream of Empire (Cambridge, 1941)
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Outline Il. AMERICAN LITERATUREProfessor Joseph Kaufman, Columbia UniversityNo attempt will be made to survey the body of American Literature. Rather, the emphasis in the lectures will be upon the works of those writers who appear, from the vantage point of 1947, to have exerted the greatest influence on the development of two literary forms: the novel and the short story.Examination in the development of the American novel will follow this approximate course.
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Outline Ill. AMERICAN GOVERNMENTProfessor Gordon H. Leffingwell, Jr., Yale UniversityAn attempt will be made to examine the American political scene from several different angles. The lectures will fall into three general groupings:
This group will study the political background of America's entry into the Second World War, including This seminar will conduct an investigation into Using
No single text covers the range of this course. The emphasis will be upon three classic reports about America by astute and sympathetic visitors: Tocqueville, Bryce and Myrdal. Reading assignments from their works will be made from time to time.
Arrangements have also been made to airmail six copies of the
Extensive use will be made of these
sources.
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BOOK I
1961 - A Point of View
[1]
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Boatwright Corporation
[2]
What are you going to do about Boatwright and what are you going to do about yourself?
[3]
Have we learned anything this evening, Doctor?
[4]
Producing results?
[5]
Alexander's Feast
[6]
How'd you like to go over to Salzburg for a month with me?
BOOK II
1947 - An Island
[7]
You're not going to Berlin. You're staying here.
[8]
All right, we're the Military Government.
[9]
The Americans are teaching us to be democratic instead of fascistic.
[10]
Well, this is Fasching.
[11]
Letters after Ash Wednesday
[12]
Say Boris is at Schloss Fyrmian.
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THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN EUROPE - Prospectus for the First Session
[14]
Learn to think of people as individuals.
[15]
Parlez-moi d'amour, redites-moi des choses tendres.
[16]
Not one thing left to show that you've ever been on earth? -"Sources of Soviet Conduct"
[17]
A Countess, a Prussian Officer and a Ländler
[18]
Now this part of your life is over and I'm sending you home.
[19]
A father who's too busy to watch his son die. - The Spring of 1961
[20]
I cannot sell Schloss Fyrmian to the Academy.
BOOK III
1961 - A Change of Air
[21]
The first thing I saw was the Festung Hohensalzburg far in the distance, silhouetted against the shadowy curtain of the high mountains.
[22]
Next day at the Academy we got to work - Graham, you know what Fleischer did?
[23]
Im weißen Rößl am Wolfgangsee
[24]
Brockaw writing a thesis on Austrian baroque architecture? - Boatwright Corporation and Boris Fleischer, plaintiffs
[25]
You know there a Mr. Devereaux? Mr. Armistead Devereaux?
[26]
I think always of Peter Devereaux.
[27]
It sounds like an act of desperation, and it won't hold up in court.
[28]
In those Oklahoma Hills WHERE AH WAS BOW-AHHHN!
[29]
... that we should meet again like this . . . I think perhaps there is a reason.
[30]
"Is there here an American by name of Brockaw?"
[31]
This is Boris Fleischer!
[32]
"Does Hans work for Gehlen?" Paola shook her head. "More the other way around."
[33]
Won't you please come home? Everybody needs you, I most of all.
[34]
With this Waffenstillstand you have time now.
[35]
You're going to regret this for the rest of your life!
[36]
We Europeans would not do it. None of us. - People think you need medical attention.
[37]
Will they trust you?
[38]
Some things about the U.S.A. are perhaps rather important, and to us impressive.
[39]
You're going to need a good lawyer.