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Harry T. Levin '33, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, said last night some council members believe VES is a "new field," and that the department should not be opened to "those who are along for the ride...
...read, would probably not even recognize, the names of American conservatism--a long and deeply embedded tradition in this country. This would include Charles Eliot Norton, co-editor of the North American Review and James Russell Lowell, the editor of The Atlantic; Henry James and Henry Adams; Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More; Leanth Brooks, co-editor of the Southern Review and John Crowe Ransom, editor of the Kenyon Review; or more recently in political philosophy Russell Kirk and Leo Strauss. He seems to be singularly unacquainted with the history of Harvard, since four of the men, Norton, Lowell, Adams...
Harry Levin, '33, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, who voted for Udall, said "several local people involved in government whose opinions I respect have come out in favor of him, such as [John Kenneth] Galbraith ['50 Worburg Professor of Economics] and [Archibald] Cox ['34 Williston Professor...
...When I meet God, I expect to meet him as an American." Though that may sound like a boast by Babbitt, it comes from the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam War and America's indifference to the poor. But Neuhaus, 39, a white pastor of a largely black Lutheran church in Brooklyn, has always kept everyone off balance. When he led his parish in an antiwar protest service in 1967, he insisted that the youths who were turning in their draft cards join in a lusty chorus of America the Beautiful...
...makes an interesting remark in his 1964 preface to the published lectures. Of his earlier essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," continually applauded and sometimes used as propaganda by conservative English departments trying to dictate classical educations, he says it was "perhaps the most juvenile." Harry Levi '33, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, saw Eliot speak when Levin was an undergraduate, and he's seen many of the Norton lectures since then. When asked which lecture meant the most to him, he said that Edwin Panovsky's presentation. "Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character," given...