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...their early attraction to Marxism and their later repudiation of it in favor of conservatism. "Open a copy of National Review," he says, "and we find the renegades from radicalism as cold war avengers. Positions have changed, but the passions remain." The ex-communist becomes an "inverted Stalinist", in Isaac Deutscher's phrase. Diggins defers to Deutscher's descriptions of such...
Spellman said this week that he resigned last fall to work with the National Endowment because of the administration's "discriminatory policy" toward Afro, specifically its failure to recommend Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro-American studies, for tenure...
...letter, Spellman singled out the case of Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro-American Studies, as the basis for his belief that "the administration's attitude toward our faculty varies from disrespect to contempt...
...committee created last spring to consider candidates for tenure in Afro did not recommend Isaac's bid for tenure. An Afro Department committee issued a report in November alleging that the ad hoc committee did not give Isaac's candidacy "serious consideration...
According to the letter, the experience of Isaac and other Afro colleagues led Spellman to conclude that "for me to try to have a career at Harvard would be about the same as submitting to a voluntary emasculation...