Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 said it is possible that U.S-Soviet relations will improve because of the summit but warned that, "[We should not] abandon our principles and run wild with the fervor of perfect universal peace...
...Lowell group were the poetic heirs of the long-lived constellation of T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost. Meyers, biographer of Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Mansfield and other troubled writers, persuasively argues that the younger men approached their predecessors "in depth of genius and artistic achievement" but "surpassed them in the extremity of pain." Meyers' fever chart begins with blighted childhoods: each man lost his father young. Each was severely disturbed, opening his psychic wounds and bleeding into confessional verse. But they all went a step beyond, steeping in self- pity, some sabotaging their marriages with meaningless affairs, others sniping...
...that no other student before them had. The intrepid freshmen signed up to test drive the Women's Studies program four months after the concentration was voted into existence. The product of eight years of lobbying and planning, the concentration received only one dissent--from Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield--as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) approved its first new concentration in three years...
...absence of dissenters at the Faculty vote--which many attribute to the extreme opposing position Mansfield espoused during the Faculty debate--is in stark contrast to the heated debate on campus concerning an Afro-Am department. Only after student strikes and a takeover of University Hall did students sway the faculty on the creation of a new department...
...most renowned faculties placed its stamp of approval on a new area of intellectual inquiry. When the dean of the faculty called on faculty members to shout their "ayes" and "nays," the room echoed resoundingly with "ayes." One lone and thoroughly discredited voice uttered a "nay." Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., a professor of government, spoke alone for an intimidated minority that still had doubts about the new undergraduate concentration, dubbed Women's Studies...