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Commuter Jeff Joll, a software equality insurance engineer and Kendall Square regular, says he gets “intense entertainment value from people trying to manipulate them. They yank it really hard...
...piece on Italian Futurism was researched in Prof. Daniel Bell's seminar, The Relation of Culture to Social Structure, and he gave patient and helpful support. The author does not read Italian, and drew heavily on three accounts of the Futurists: James Joll's Three Intellectuals in Politics; Marianne Martin's Futurist Art and Theory; and Joshua Taylor's Futurism. Citations have been omitted to save the reader's eye, but can be had at the Crimson if anyone would like to know precisely who said what where...
...uses of history: the historian is concerned with "widening the range of people's experience, much as an artist does." So "the pople who fail"--and here he deliberately rejects E.H. Carr's recently published ideas--"are often just as interesting as those who triumph." At the moment Joll is beginning a study of "people who have gone under," anarchists, trying to find out "why there have been anarchist movements, whether anarchism is backward looking, or political Bohemianism or what." If, he says, any thing connected his three intellectuals, it was concern with industrial society, centralised states, and so forth...
...will not, he insists, be a history of anarchism; if his past works are any guide it will most likely be a graceful, analytic but highly sympathetic discussion of the ideas of individuals and of the times and places they were used. Joll often seems very like a quieter, more diffident, more wistful version of a man he describes with great admiration. Sir Isaiah Berlin (who will, incidentally, stay at Harvard this Fall) has "had a vast influence on everyone of my generation;" he is "an ebullient figure, with an endless flow of ideas and speculations and paradoxes; an excellent...
...Joll leaves Lowell House tomorrow for England and St. Antony's. He expects to spend time in Sicily ("perhaps I shall discover some more anarchists there"). This has been his fourth visit to the U.S., where he found "sun-tanned gods and goddesses" at Stanford, good students and a History and Literature program that he likes greatly at Harvard. Some of those who took History 150b this term recall the lecturer as a figure swaying gently back and forth at the podium, obviously, amusedly and earnestly interested in ideas for their own sake...