Word: kilson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What do Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54, Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson, George Bush's nephew, and Ted Hennessey '88 all have in common? They've all bought tuxedos at Keezer's, which, says its owner, supplies "fine-quality traditional men's clothing, new and used, always a bargain...
...connection with these questions let us comment briefly on the matter of Martin Kilson, Professor of Government at Harvard University, and the controversy surrounding his critisism in the Harvard Crimson of certain black students' activities. First it should be understood that Kilson is, to paraphrase Churchill's remark about the Russians, an inscrutable enigma wrapped in a mystery. In other words, anyone even casually acquainted with Kilson's political and intellectual history recognizes immediately that he is a figure of considerable complexity. His intuitive and scholarly comprehension of obscure dialects of black life is frequently brilliant and shrewd...
Even at Harvard, there have of course been exceptions. For example, the now defunct Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs was a high quality periodical which, under the influence and sponsorship of Dean of Students, Archie C. Epps III and Professor Martin Kilson, ran for approximately four years (the Dean was then a graduate student and tutor). These exceptions however, merely underline the rule. To this should be added the extraordinary organizational efforts of Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes who has sponsored the biannual William Belden Nobel lectures, and those of the William J. Seymour Society which...
...Kilson may thus have been correct when he made his criticisms years ago, Shaw says, but today "the is out of touch with what students are like...
...Ethnocentric militants" will always be making these arguments, Kilson counters. The debate between them and the "pragmatic independents"--as he calls himself--"has always been out there in Afro-American life and it will be there until the cows come home...