Word: boorstin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were never distrusted because their function came before their social status." Even the intellectual's least controversial role, as custodian of the heritage, is taken lightly in America because, says Poet W. H. Auden, "American cul ture is committed to the future." The fact is, adds Historian Daniel Boorstin of the University of Chicago, that the U.S. has never produced intellectuals in the European sense. "A great deal of the wailing heard is derived from a European notion of the role of the intellectual. Those who attack U.S. culture are really saying: 'Why aren't we more...
Many faculty members, past and present, are mentioned for their "collectivist" views. These include former Communists like Richard Gorham Davis, Daniel J. Boorstin '34, Granville Hicks '23, Helen Deane Markham, Leon J. Kamin '49--no longer associated with the University--and Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, are classified as "fellow travelers" by Root...
...arrived was another figure who gained prominence because of his communist affiliation: Robert Gorham Davis '29, at present a professor at Smith College, then an instructor at the University. He joined the party in January 1937 and attended the same cell meetings as Hicks, Wendell H. Furry, Daniel J. Boorstin '34, now University Professor at the University of Chicago, and several other lesser-known graduate students and junior-grade faculty members...
...former Harvard instructor, Daniel J. Boorstin, also testified before the Veldo Committee yesterday. Boorstin reiterated testimony by Professor Robert G. Davis of Smith as to the existence of a Communist cell at Harvard in the thirties. He, as did Davis, testified that Furry had been a member of that group...
Aside from Furry and Boorstin, Davis named eight other former teachers as cell members. They are Jack B. Rackliffe '34, John H. Reynolds '29, Richard B. Schlatter, former instructor in History, Richard M. Goodwin '34, instructor in Physics and later assistant professor of Economics, George Mayberry, Israel Halperin, Ruby Sherr, and Herbert E. Robbins...