Word: helix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker (9) 10. The Double Helix, Watson...
University Press refused to publish The Double Helix, Watson's highly personal account of the discovery...
...distinguished colleague Talcott Parsons, with whom I agree on most matters, has charged the Harvard President and Corporation with suppression of academic freedom in vetoing the decision of the Syndics of the Harvard University Press to publish The Double Helix by James Watson. I believe this is unjust and I rise in a limited way to their defense...
Even with generous qualifications like these, a policy that insists on "balanced" television presentations is at best illogical. As in its decision not to publish J. D. Watson's The Double Helix, the University is confusing an expression of opinion coming from this campus with a statement of policy bearing the official Harvard seal...
Since the feature review of the New York Times Book Review last Sunday was of Professor J. D. Watson's book, The Double Helix, it is perhaps not too late to comment on the action of the President and Fellows of Harvard College in forbidding the Harvard University Press to publish the book. It is my feeling that this action was unwarranted and constituted a serious infringement of academic freedom. I am not a biologist, nor am I in detail acquainted with the technical issues of the controversy: I base this judgment on general grounds...