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...introducing Moore, Class of 2008 graduate Anne E. Bercovich not only extolled Moore for her accomplishments in the business world, but also for overcoming hardships as a student. Moore attended the Business School when men dominated the class and womens’ bathrooms lacked permanent signs, Bercovich said...
Robinson's decision is the second personnel move in the English Department announced in the last week. On Friday, Columbia Puritan specialist Sacvan Bercovich said that he had accept a Harvard tenure offer...
Bloomfield added that Bercovich "has just revolutionized the field of American literature." Bloomfield cited in particular the Columbia scholar's work in realizing the importance of Puritan typology, that is, the way those early settlers felt they were "fulfilling the Biblical pattern...
...Bercovich was born on Montreal in 1933 and attended high school there, "the first in his family" to do so, he said After high school, he moved to Israel, where he lived on a Kibbutz for several years, before returning to the United States for further education...
...Though Bercovich has never lived in Boston, his arrival at Harvard in the fall will in a strange way be kind of a homecoming. His "idealistic" mother, he said, named him after Sacco and Vanzetti, the famous anarchists who were executed for treason in Boston during the "red scare" of the 1920s. "In a way," Bercovich chuckled, "I'll be returning to the scene of the crime...