Word: geertz
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...Studies. (b)At the meeting at which the nomination was voted down, the faculty passed a motion which read "The faculty supports the creation of a strong program in social science", by the following vote: 15 in favor, 2 opposed, 6 abstaining. (c)The present professor of Social Science, Geertz, was appointed after a faculty vote in which there was no opposition. (d)Of the 17 members of the faculty of 27 who have publicly voiced their lack of confidence in Dr. Kaysen, 8 are professors of Historical Studies...
...faculty resented not being consulted on his plans, but at first Kaysen calmed them by moving slowly. Not until 1970 did he make his first appointment to the School of Social Science-naming Anthropologist Clifford Geertz as head-and it received no opposition. Last October, however, when he decided to nominate Bellah, he aroused that special combination of incandescent anger and pettiness of which large intellects are sometimes capable...
...Physicist Freeman Dyson notes: "There are a lot of scientists who consider religion as a childhood disease." Logician Morton White dismissed Bellah's work as "pedestrian and pretentious." Mathematician André Weil called him "not of the intellectual and academic quality of a professor at the institute." When Geertz challenged their credentials to judge, White retorted: "This guy doesn't write in Chinese, in Japanese, or in mathematical symbols we can't understand. This wasn't a case of no spikka da English...
...people who are opposed to my appointment have no interaction or communication with the Social Science program," Bellah said yesterday. "Both Professor Geertz [the only other Institute member in the Social Sciences] and I are products of Harvard's Social Relations Department, and we want to take a new non-disciplinarian approach at the Institute...