Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more moderate view is that of Derrick A. Bell Jr., professor of Law. Bell says that Americans have developed the impression that whites are superior to blacks, and he says this makes it difficult to recognize that blacks are not incompetent simply because they are black. "I don't think that Harvard is any more racist than the society--maybe not any worse, but certainly not any better," Bell said...
...Bell, who in 1968 became the first and only tenured black professor at Harvard Law School, also agrees that much of the hiring was a direct reaction to student demands...
Whether or not Epps's opinion has been taken to heart by the administration is uncertain, but according to Bell, the original movement to increase the number of blacks at the college has died down. Bell says he believes that the gradual demise of the effort has adversely affected the credibility of blacks already here. "The longer a black teacher remains the only one in a department, the more eroded his credibility becomes," Bell says...
...because of sociology's lack of all-encompassing theory tied to the existing social order, sociologists have a tendency towards the accommodation of radical views. Senior sociologists at Harvard, like Seymour Martin Lipset and Daniel Bell, have integrated Marxist modes of analysis into their own theories. A parallel development would be impossible for any neo-classical economist. For this reason, and also because the senior Sociology faculty is somewhat to the left of Economics, an Economics-type purge of radicals seems unlikely. Taylor said last week, "In the Sociology Department, there are various sorts of Marxist sympathizers and very leftish...
...rang a little bell...