Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full tour from home-office, to library, to master bedroom. We'd wait for the "golden hour" around dinner time to shoot the grounds and the photos would be worthy of Better Homes and Gardens. But all 40 of Harvard's big wigs said no--"no way"-- except Harvey Mansfield who said yes and Henry Louis Gates Jr. who simply directed us to this month's House & Garden magazine which features his home. And so Professor Scrut Version Three, with no takers, flatlined...
Slicing a red pepper into thin, elegant pieces, Harvey C. Mansfield '49 sips a glass of red wine a la Julia Child. "I have never made cupcakes before," he said, responding to a suggestion that they be served for dessert. "I once did baking powder biscuits." As a junior high schooler, Mansfield took Home Economics. "They taught us how to sew on a button," he recalls painfully. "This might be quite useful...for a man without a wife...
...Prince of Conservatives," as Harvard Magazine recently dubbed him, is almost at home cooking the first full meal of his life. While he is more comfortable teaching a popular class on ancient and medieval political philosophy or conducting research on his new book, entitled Manliness, Mansfield also enjoys being provocative. His hyperbole becomes campus controversy. He calls gay sex "shameful." He speculates that the rise in black students at Harvard has led to grade inflation. He repeatedly warns against the dangers of disrespecting manliness...
...This week FM puts Mansfield in his place...
While Wirzbicki asserts that conservatives aren't socially isolated on campus, I can't remember the last time I saw a card-carrying member of the NRA hanging out with a hippie or seeing Professor Harvey C. Mansfield and Professor Cornel West having a cold one at the Grille...