Word: academicians
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...group who did not go to college. This is a minor point, but the inaccuracy here is representative of the general inaccuracy of the entire piece. (God save us if appearing over WHRB, which many of the Fellows have done, is now the mark of the well-rounded academician or scholar...
...will offset the lucrative salaries, light teaching loads, and promise of earlier tenure appointments offered to Harvard junior faculty members by other universities. Most young instructors leave Harvard because staying is pointless--and that is unchanged by the Warren Center. Harvard can be a dead end for an aspiring academician--there are already just too many good people competing for two few senior posts. Increasing the number of non-tenured faculty members only means there will be more competing for those few positions...
...temperature matched his mood as he launched into a bitter denunciation of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, professing to see "a rising tide of public shame and private anger at the moral outrages to which our Government has committed our country." That proved to be more than Fellow Academician Thomas Hart Benton, 76, the rugged Missouri muralist, could swallow. He stormed from the rostrum, fired off a telegram promising to resign from the Academy unless it "publicly repudiates your views...
...important bureaucrat took these ideas a logical step farther, demanding an interest charge on capital and prices rooted in economic reality rather than planning fiction. Academician Vadim Trapeznikov, revered in Russia as the "father of Soviet automation," threw his weight in with the reformers all along the line, noting that "one hears the view that interest on capital is a concept of capitalistic society." Wrong, he insisted. "In fact, the form here is identical, but the essence is different...
...columns of praise for his enemies and critics. Soviet genetic laboratories openly dared to use Western ideas and methods. Lysenko's departure last week was marked by a speech by Mathematician Mstislav V. Keldysh, president of the august Academy of Sciences. Said Keldysh: "The exclusive position held by Academician Lysenko must not continue. His theories must be submitted to free discussion and normal verification...