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...assumes academics don't have professional ethics, nor even good sense. The great leviathan wants to step in to keep us from misbehaving...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Studying--Or Fighting--The Feds | 4/12/1975 | See Source »

...said that--Alan E. Heimert '49, chairman of the English Department--has a new administrative job now. Probably starting next year. Heimert will chair a Faculty committee on Harvard's relationship to the leviathan he spoke about at an October Faculty meeting--the federal government...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Studying--Or Fighting--The Feds | 4/12/1975 | See Source »

...cases, including the Commander in Chief, His Royal Highness King George V. The flu-ridden crew of the American transport Otranto was too weak to abandon ship after colliding with another vessel during an Atlantic storm. It sank with a loss of 431 lives. Aboard the troop ship Leviathan, a young Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt suddenly keeled over. From an overcrowded Chicago hospital ward a deathly feverish 16-year-old who had lied about his age to become a Red Cross ambulance driver was sent home to improve his chances for recovery. His name was Walt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pale Horse, Pale Rider | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

Harvard's most vigorous opponent of the Buckley Amendment, Alan E. Heimert '49, chairman of the English Department, is laid off after a routine check of his files reveals that he forged his letters of recommendation to Harvard in 1945. "This Leviathan-like traducing of my personal privacy pisses me off," Heimert snorts. Special Delivery News Service runs a full-page Crimson advertisement urging subscribers who do not receive their papers to "Give us what we deserve." Later that morning, The Crimson building at 14 Plympton St. is fire-bombed. Nearby, Pat McInally explains to two children and their Irish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1975: Martin Bormann You Can't Hide! | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

Worse, perhaps, the bowhead had been hunted to death-that leviathan of the Quakers' psalmbook that God put in "this great and wide sea ... to play therein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whole Sea Catalogue | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

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