Word: goldfarb
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...matchboxes sat on the table for years, rarely used by smokers, but that was not their purpose. They were meant as a signal in a university where homosexuality was not universally acceptable--that Goldfarb's office was a haven for gay, bisexual and lesbian students...
Such stories pushed Goldfarb, an abstract mathematical logical theorist who has never held a permanent job outside Harvard University, to come out of the closet in the early 1980s, making him the first openly gay member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Goldfarb is a slight, bearded man, often casually dressed in jeans and black Reeboks. Hardcovered philosophy books line the shelves of his large office, and a depiction of a cow amidst grass with the legend "Outstanding in the Field" adorns a mug sitting in the middle of his somewhat cluttered desk...
...student gave the mug to him, he explains. The two small figurines on another corner of the desk are part of a Wittgenstein joke reference comprehensible only to those in the know, but the humor of a nearby Citizen Goldfarb book, the self-published autobiography of an obscure industrialist, is self-explanatory...
...activism, and the scholarship, provide a curious if not surprising mix given Goldfarb's background. He comes from a middle-class New York Jewish family. His parents were children of immigrants who valued education above all else and were willing to make financial sacrifices to send a son to Harvard...