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...meeting's rationale, of course, was that the Faculty should not enter into "polities" as a corporate body and that their loyalty should be first and foremost to academic pursuits. No doubt they felt this is a noble stand, but- in the reality of the present crisis- it is a shabby affront to those who feel that bringing to an end this country's wholesale destruction of human life takes precedence over all other business. Fighting the acts of violence being committed in the name of the Free World is hardly "politics" in the usual sense...
...warning to those who already share Cowan's sentiments. The same subjective passion that may flaw the book as history makes it a uniquely persuasive political statement. The Making of an Un-American owes its uniqueness as a polemic to the fact that it is first and foremost about people, which (as often as we may forget) is also what politics is about. Cowan's development as a human being, which encompasses his development as a political activist, becomes all-important to the reader. Parts of the book read like a diary and relate to the main theme of radicalization...
Isaac Bashevis Singer, author of Satan in Goray, The Magician of Lublin, and several collections of short stories, is the foremost living writer in Yiddish. His recent book, A Day of Pleasure, won the National Book Award in children's literature. "Children still belive in God, the family, angels devils witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff," he said as he accepted the award. The following interview took place about three weeks ago when Singer came to speak at Harvard...
Died. Charles A. Wellman, 54, president of the $1 billion LFC Financial Corp., and one of the country's foremost doctors of ailing companies; in Los Angeles. When Wellman took over from Bart Lytton in 1968, the huge ($685 million assets) but debt-ridden Lytton Financial Corp. was on the verge of bankruptcy. The new president refinanced and borrowed $50 million, largely on the strength of his reputation, then audaciously merged with two smaller savings and loan firms, thereby increasing assets by an additional $370 million. Said an admiring competitor at the time: "Wellman is converting three alley cats...
Last week, after a five-month search, Yale named Pollak's successor. He is Professor Abraham S. Goldstein, a 44-year-old former trial lawyer who has taught criminal law at Yale since 1956. Both as teacher and author, Goldstein ranks as one of the country's foremost authorities on criminal law and procedure. But Goldstein realizes that his task now reaches far beyond the perimeters of legal scholarship. He wants to reunite teachers and students into the kind of cohesive academic community that once helped make Yale the nation's most creative law school...