Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American Sociologist Daniel Bell was outraged. So were West German Novelist Heinrich Boll, France's former Culture Minister Andre Malraux and British Poet-Critic Stephen Spender. An indignant committee of Nobel laureates called upon U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to complain. Novelist Saul Bellow was so angry that he exploded at an international P.E.N. congress in Jerusalem last week: "They are stupid, ignorant, partisan. And I think they are a lot of swine...
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., the Law School's only black professor, wrote a confidential letter to his colleagues protesting Law School hiring practices. Bell warned that unless the number of minority faculty increased, he might resign...
...Bell's letter deserved a serious response from Harvard officials, but so far that response--publicly, at least--has been a slightly piqued, can't-be-bothered shrug...
President Bok told his news conference last week that Bell has no "legitimate gripe," adding: "We're making a visible attempt to find available candidates. The choices we make are not on the basis of race and sex." Bok's response sounded like a Nixon press conference answer: He attempted to minimize the importance of a problem while concurrently emphasizing the administration's "visible attempt" to solve...
...Bell does not have a "legitimate gripe," it is hard to understand what that phrase means to Bok. Bell is the only black professor among 59 at the Law School. Of 16 Law School teaching fellows, there is only one black and one with a Spanish surname, which is also a criterion for official minority status. Bell's gripe could not be more legitimate--whether the "visible attempt" to recruit minority faculty is a phony PR slogan or an honest effort that has completely failed...