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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET, professor of Government and Social Relations, is luckier than most people who work for a living. He evidently likes his job and is convinced of its worth. In his essay on the history of political controversy at Harvard, Lipset writes about his profession and his place of employment like a parishioner who believes he worships the best of all gods at the best of all churches. His job, lest there be any confusion about it, is "creative scholarship," the cultivation and formulation of knowledge. His employer is, of course, Harvard University, whose historical dedication to free...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Fair Harvard Strikes Back | 4/12/1975 | See Source »

...appointment to the chair was announced, the Harvard Alumni magazine hailed him as a great poet who WA "original with the only originality that counts, that which has a profound conservative basis..." Eliot makes an interesting remark in his 1964 preface to the published lectures. Of his earlier essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," continually applauded and sometimes used as propaganda by conservative English departments trying to dictate classical educations, he says it was "perhaps the most juvenile." Harry Levi '33, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, saw Eliot speak when Levin was an undergraduate, and he's seen many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mystique of the Norton Lectures | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...evidence, Cuddihy presents "On the Jewish Question," Marx's still controversial essay about the economic behavior of the Jews. Many scholars have seen it as an anti-Semitic tract. To Cuddihy, on the contrary, it is a description of the Jew as the universal capitalist whose "worldly God" is money. The Gentile capitalists worshiped the same God, except that they affected a veneer of civility as "a figleaf for the cash nexus ... The civilities are a kind of games goyim [Gentiles] play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jews Without Manners | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...military service with the Algerian cavalry in 1860-61 as though they were nothing but art training: "You can't imagine how much I learned in this way, how well it trained my eye." In fact, as Art Historian Grace Seiberling points out in her excellent catalogue essay, Monet both cultivated and violated the myth of impressionism. From the garden scenes at Argenteuil in the 1870s, through the cliffs and seascapes of Étretat and BelleIsle in the 1880s to the blue watery cathedrals he made from his lily pond at Giverny, Monet constantly reworked his paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fields of Energy | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...themes in the new journalism essay resurface in a less obviously self-serving form, in "The Painted Word." There is the same criticism of post-war art as being relevant only to critical work and to other art, rather than life. There is the same bitterness towards critics, the same yearning for realism...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Joining the Enemy Camp | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

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