Word: leviathans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps it is because Heimert is so vehemently opposed to federal dictation of university affairs--he sees the government as a "leviathan" interfering where it isn't wanted--that Dean Rosovsky has appointed him head of a special faculty committee to investigate the government-university issues raised by the recent student files...
...assumes academics don't have professional ethics, nor even good sense. The great leviathan wants to step in to keep us from misbehaving...
...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...
...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...
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...