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For the benefit of hermits, Mame is sort of a superannuated Sally Bowles, an addled adventuress who nurtures her orphaned nephew Patrick in her own freewheeling ways. Mame is supposed to lead a lavishly bohemian life, although her pranks and her parties as shown here would not look outré...
One such victim is Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics, whose contract expires this spring. The department, however, decided last week to rehire MacEwan for next year by offering him a temporary lectureship position. This action averts what had earlier appeared to be a successful purge of all the radicals...
Both Bowles and Gintis have been denied tenure, and are leaving Harvard at the end of this year. Last year Bowles attributed his and Gintis's tenure denials to "political considerations."
Bowles and Gintis rejected the traditional view of education in a Marxian analysis of the political economy of education. The problems of education are essentially due to the "repressive and autocratic nature of the economy," Gintis said. The last 50 years show the failure of education in promoting economic equality...
Bowles and Gintis's speech was the first of four scheduled at the Graduate School of Education on the political economy of education this year. They are being sponsored by the X-150 collective of the Ed School.