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...province of the University is truth—Veritas,” Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, the Kenan professor of government, wrote in an e-mail...
Although generally held in high esteem, Schama—former Mellon professor of the social sciences and Kenan professor of the humanities at Harvard until 1993—has intermittently come under fire for some of his more esoteric projects. The fallout from his bizarre 1991 speculative murder history, “Dead Certainties,” may have kept some readers away from his 1995 interdisciplinary masterpiece, “Landscape and Memory...
...class. And apparently he comes in one day of the year wearing a dominatrix suit, and ‘S&M’ kind of thing,” editor number one said. Out of the thirty-five or so people initially nominated, only three were from Harvard: Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature Svetlana Boym, and Lecturer on Anthropology Carole K. Hooven. Both Boym and Mansfield declined to comment (disillusioned modesty perhaps?), but Hooven, while expressing disappointment over her early elimination, also...
...signs up for the class. When he shows up to the classroom there are about 20 other neurotic and emasculated guys cowering at the sight of Dr. P’s lineback-like assistant, Lesher (Michael Clark Duncan, “Talladega Nights”). Then Thornton emerges, like Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield on Red Bull, relentlessly mocking these wusses and instilling in them pseudo-macho wisdom about landing hot chicks. His favorite pearl of wisdom is the ignorantly cliché, “lie, lie, and lie some more.” However, Roger processes...
...He’s very genial, everybody likes him,” said Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, who was Verba’s Leverett House entryway mate during their College years. “He’s a jokester, that’s another reason why everybody likes...