Word: heimert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Similar concern was expressed by committee member Alan Heimert, Master of Eliot House...
...Heimert's view of the university can be deduced from this concern for his own integrity. Like so many of the men who lived through McCarthy's murderous anti-intellectualism, he has come to believe that the first task of any academy is to uphold man's right to isolate himself. "A university can promote many things beside the intellectual enterprise," he says. "But I worry the moment it starts to abandon that enterprise for any reason." Barricading the Dow recruiter last year seemed to him a threatening disruption of the rules of liberal fair play. He is willing, however...
Much of what Heimert thinks he owes to Miller. Though he attempted to say how much in a long article published in the 1964 issue of the Harvard Review which commemerated the latter's death, the article and his conversations make it clear that he does not consider himself qualified to judge. "It's too close," he says. "I still consider it Perry's business as well as mine, and for that reason I dislike speaking about it." The pair will probably never be untangled, intellectually or emotionally, They were, it seems, two great friends who also happened...
...Master Heimert is constrained by the intellectualization of Professor Heimert. On the one hand, he learned at Berkeley that "a great big, impersonal university just doesn't make it;" on the other hand, people just can't be thrown together in the Houses, placed under the charge of administrators, and told to interact--that would be "cheap social engineering." The solution is to recruit Masters who are committed to the intellectual goals of the university and to the social goals of the Houses. Heimert no doubt sees himself as this kind of compound figure. But his whole disposition makes...
...interest. For as was to be expected he is not completely at home in this office, as he is not in any other. "I still have trouble introducing myself in the dining room," he says. "Sometimes people don't know when I'm being ironic." Well, then, presenting Alan Heimert, All-American, Un-American Anti-Absolutist