Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incorrect to state that "Pusey unexpectedly decided to get involved." As you note on your editorial page of the issue of February 14, Mr. Pusey received letters objecting to the manuscript from scientists who figured in it. Mr. Wilson kept Mr. Pusey fully informed of reactions received by the Press, and it was with Mr. Wilson's knowledge that the matter was placed before the Corporation. Mark Carroll Director, Harvard University Press
...flap of sorts, Pusey referred the decision on Watson's work to the Harvard Corporation. It was the first time that University officials outside of the Press chose to review the editorial judgment of Wilson and the Syndics. Even though the Press continued to stand behind Watson's manuscript, the Corporation decided to reject it. In Pusey's words, publication would have meant "taking sides in a controversy among scientists." Pusey and the Fellows forgot that any work--whether a memoir, detached scholarship, or pastoral poetry--is bound to offend somebody, even a good scientist...
...MISSOLONGHI MANUSCRIPT by Frederic Prokosch. 338 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Vienna-born and educated, Dr. Frankl was spared by the Nazis until late 1942, when he was confined in Theresienstadt, and in 1944 he was sent to Auschwitz. His mother and his wife died in concentration camps. Another casualty was the manuscript of a book on which he had worked for years. Dr. Frankl survived three camps, and has written of his experiences with a keen humanism as well as psychiatric insight. Since World War II, he has won wider recognition, and he now heads the neurological department of Vienna's famed Poliklinik Hospital...
...manuscript, a letter in 1899 to a young Hessian named Ernst Schramm, stated that "All just people ... must refuse to become soldiers...