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Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 may leave Harvard to accept the Nef chair in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, sources said yesterday...
...solid checking game, both in the neutral zone and around the Crimson-nef...
Unified Knowledge. According to Chicago's catalogue, social thought now is "understood to refer to the ideas concerning the intellectual and moral foundations of society." According to Economist-Historian John U. Nef, 64, the committee's co-founder chairman, the aim is to combat the kind of blind specialization that an Oxford don once illustrated by boasting: "At last I have written a really good book. Not only will nobody read it. Nobody can read...
...both Russia and the U.S., young France sees mushrooming technological civilizations, and doubts if it can ever catch up to them. Observed André Labarthe in the highbrow magazine La Nef: "French youth discovers itself harnessed to a chariot that has been bogged down for 50 years and whose drivers can only look backwards...
...with bulging eyes and pouting lips, Faure succeeds by driving energy, quick wit, and breezy, first-naming familiarity. He lives in deep-carpeted splendor in one of Paris' most fashionable apartment houses with his wife and their two daughters. His energetic wife publishes a political review. La Nef, presides over a salon peopled with avant-garde writers and left-wing intellectual-politicians. Where Mendès whipped men to decision by the scornful lash of his tongue, Faure seeks to cajole. But two months ago Faure flew into a rage when L'Express' Editor Servan-Schreiber hinted...