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Executives of the Library of Congress are considering Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor and chairman of the Faculty library committee, as librarian of Congress, The New York Times reported yesterday...
...Handlin refused to comment yesterday because he had not been contacted by library authorities...
...course consists of 20 "lectures," which are printed every Thursday in 258 newspapers, having a combined circulation of 19.5 million. They are written by such prominent "faculty" members as Harvard Historian Oscar Handlin, Yale Economist Henry C. Wallich and M.I.T. Physicist Philip Morrison. The articles are all entitled "America and the Future of Man" (the formal name of the course) and cover history, psychology, sociology, social ethics and political science. In last week's installment, for example, Garrett J. Hardin, professor of human ecology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, reviewed the ethical and social problems...
Professors Oscar Handlin and Donald Fleming sign a petition insisting that Derek Bok is, in fact, neither of them. "Whoever he is, he is a gosh-darned prudent administrator," Fleming says, "but whoever Derek C. Bok may be, he is certainly...
...Free expression," "open market of ideas," words of this kind are stated and re-stated in the publications and the speeches of such men as Handlin, Hook, and Nathan Glazer, with all the zeal, reiteration and hypnosis of the most expensive media-promotion. There is, however, one essential item absent from the standard presentation: Intellectual license is not serious, solid or substantial--certainly it is formidably circumscribed in implication--if, prior to words and long preceding deeds, our yearnings themselves are in such firm constraint that we no longer even wish to do that which, if we could wish...