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Take George Wald. The Higgins Professor Emeritus of Biology has two presents he'd like to receive: "decency in American government" and "a second political party in America." Try stuffing those in your stocking...
...gift lists this year. Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, asks for nothing else. Nicolaas Bloembergen, Gade University Professor and this year's Nobel laureate in physics, wants a little more: "I'd like peace and quiet," he says. And John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor Emeritus of History, is choosiest of all. "Peace and good will is all right," he says, but "but I'd like to add a little more intelligence. A little study...
Edwin O. Reischauer's near and dear ones are going to have a tough time wrapping the present he wants. "I'm like anyone else," says the University Professor Emeritus and Japan expert. "What I want is time...
...came to Harvard last summer. From 1963 to 1977, she was the only woman in the University of Southern California's Department of Sociology. (Until she established U.S.C.'s Anthropology Department she was also its only anthropologist.) Nor is Moore breaking new ground: Cora DuBois, professor of Anthropology emeritus, taught here from 1954 until her retirement...
...have already made a contribution at the international level." Elliot Richardson '41, LL.B. '47 said it was "perhaps the most useful book you will ever read." John Gardner found it "a splendid contribution to our understanding of conflict resolution." And John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics emeritus, concluded. "This is by far the best thing I've ever read about negotiation. It is equally relevant for the individual who would like to keep his friends, property and income and the statesman who would like to keep the peace...