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...protean, pug-faced Max Lerner, 57, expressionism is the word. As a New York Post-based columnist, he freely tackles anything-sex, sin, psychology, God, gold, politics. As a U.S. historian (Brandeis University), he refuses to be typed: "In an era of the specialist, I make an appeal for the vocation of the generalist...
...Russian-born son of an itinerant teacher of Hebrew, Lerner was brought to the U.S. at five, grew up mainly in New Haven. After Yale ('23), he ricocheted into the academic world with a Ph.D. in economics. In the '30s he was a quasi-Marxist (teaching at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence, Williams) who viewed the U.S. as ripe for fascism. When the country survived, Lerner got a crush on it, three years ago produced a sweeping, vibrant, 1,036-page paean, America as a Civilization (Simon & Schuster; $10). Last fall the admiring Ford Foundation sent him for a year...
...Like a Cow?" For Indian university students, Expressionist Lerner is a new breed of cat. He is at home in one sense: "This is without question the wordiest, talkingest civilization I have ever encountered." But the talk of smugly anti-materialist intellectuals is no match for blitz-tongued Professor Lerner...
...spring of 1936, during the preparation for the Tercentenary Celebration, an attempted repeal of the oath failed in the House of Representatives. Mather, along with other members of the Faculty such as Max Lerner and F. O. Matthiessen, formed the Harvard University chapter of the American Federation of Teachers...
...Kates '59, of Eliot House and Amherst, Stephen I. Klass '59, of Kirkland House and Sierra Vista, Ariz., Arthur L. Kopit '59, of Dunster House and Lawrence, N.Y., Bernard R. Kripke '59, of Eliot House and Scarsdale, N.Y., Nathaniel H. Leff '59, of Dunster House and Brookline, Stephen A. Lerner '59, of Lowell House and Chicago, III., Robert W. LeVine '59, of Winthrop House and Newton Center, Robert T. Lewit '59, of Adams House and Orange, N.J., Robert W. McCarley '59, of Kirkland House and Mayfield, Ky., Gerald L. Mackler '59, of Lowell House and West Hartford...