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Just after the election a group of Harvard's young liberals had a bull-session on the probable causes and effects of Truman's victory, and they invited Associate Professor Louis Hartz to join the discussion. Unfortunately Hartz did not join the discussion very much, chiefly because he was more polite than most of the undergraduates present. He therefore did not stick his two bits in while whoever was speaking took a second off to inhale after a comma, which is what everybody else did whenever Hartz was speaking...
...somebody such as myself, who didn't have any ideas about the election and wanted to know what Louis Hartz had to say, it was a frustrating experience to hear him get to some crucial syllable and then to lose him in a mass of interruptions by the young liberals, who didn't have any more ideas than I did, but being young liberals, felt inspired to express themselves. So it was a sort of delayed intellectual fulfillment to hear Hartz speak about the elections, along with Louis Bean, on Monday evening. He spoke from the lecture platform of Emerson...
...always with Hartz, both the style and the substance were brilliant. But since I'm a little short on space today, let me skip the substance--there's nothing so dull as a synopsis anyway--and talk about Hartz's manner of speaking...
Louis Bean, the only political analyst who predicted President Truman's re-election, will share the lecture platform with Associate Professor Louis Hartz and Professor Alvin Hansch tonight in a discussion of "1948 Elections and After." The meeting will take place in Emerson D at 7:30 p.m. under the auspices of the Liberal Union and Radcliffe's Students for Democratic Action...
Professor Hartz, speaking at an undergraduate meeting for the first time in two years, will also treat the election, while Professor Hansen will introduce the two speakers and act as moderator for the discussion following the meeting...