Word: levenson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William P. LaPiana of Leverett House and Kenmore, N.Y.; H. Michael Levenson of Dunster House and Trenton, N.J.; Gregory A. Loken of Eliot House and Littleton, Colo,; Paul W. Malony of Dunster House and Quincy; Sanford D. Markowitz of Dunster House and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Robert N. McDonald of Winthrop House and Convent Station...
...down the Coney Island boardwalk, interrupting the afternoon dozes of elderly Jewish voters in straw hats. "Hi," he said, extending his hand. "I'm Ken Elstein, and I'm running as a McGovern delegate." He stood for hours at Brooklyn El stations, bullhorn in hand. Comedian Sam Levenson, who lives in nearby Rockaway, was enlisted to tell his jokes at fund-raising parties...
...majority of the editorial board and Messrs. Baker, Levenson and Swanson cannot have their cake and eat it too. They must face the fact that formulating the nature of intellectual freedom in the manner they do is tantamount to denying intellectual freedom. Either the intellect is free from extrinsic limitations or it is not. To state, as Messrs. Baker, Levenson and Swanson do, that "political circumstances are not to be ignored...it is political considerations that must decide the terms of any debate," is simply to deprive the intellect of an intrinsic freedom...
...Crimson editorial board and Messrs. Baker, Levenson and Swanson are free to take this position, but in doing so they should recognize that they are in keeping with a long tradition of enemies of intellectual freedom, including the Medieval Church, Fascist Germany, Communist Russia, and the McCarthyites...
...what is worse, it plays into the hands of numerous detractors of reason, on both the Right and the Left. Alas: I think the SDS and UAG critics are themselves detractors of reason, and it is unfortunate indeed that the majority of the Crimson editorial board and Messrs. Baker, Levenson and Swanson have not had the good sense to recognize this. Martin Kilson Professor of Government