Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unheralded and unnoticed, which, while not a major tragedy, is still too bad, particularly around here. Raymond Sokolov's first novel is in large measure about Harvard and its mentality in the early days of the Kennedy meritocracy, as seen through various purported documents pertaining to the career of Alan Casper '63, linguistics genius and Peace Corps soldier of fortune. Casper is very clever and very witty and not very deep, and Sokolov presents his case accordingly; Native Intelligence, then, is of vast prurient interest to Harvard students and, like its hero, a little too smart for its own good...
Laws leaves few of the Law School's more tender points untouched, including the wildly approbistic response of a chorus of Supreme Court judges to a whisper of Alan Dershowitz's name. The New Yorker said of Laws namesake, don't bite. If you're unsure of the ground north of the Science Center, don't litigate...
...members-most of whom are part-time and untenured -tend to be well-known personalities in the metropolitan area. New York City Consumer Affairs Expert Elinor Guggenheimer teaches a course on the consumer and the marketplace; Village Voice Writer Nat Hentoff presides over a course in investigative reporting. Comedian Alan King, who got his start in New York clubs, has lectured on the origins of ethnic humor. Other New York personalities who have taught at the New School: Senator Jacob Javits, Broadway Producer Joseph Papp, former Mayor John Lindsay and Comedian Woody Allen...
...Alan E. Heimert '49, Cabot Professor of American Literature, who proposed the change, said at the meeting it won't affect anyone seriously--juniors who are working toward summas can simply take an extra semester of whatever they need, and sophomores, he said, can't tell yet what they're working toward anyway...
...Alan Heimert '49, Cabot Professor of American Literature, and Pipkin will move that the legislation go into effect for all summas granted after July 1, 1976, and for all other degrees after July 1, 1977. The proposed legislation is presently stipulated to start with degrees recommended after July...