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MacEwan's and the other since-departed radicals' point is that the practice of neutral scholarship is impossible. MacEwan says, "Ideology is a good thing, and in any case, an inescapable thing--if it's a good ideology." The radical faculty at Harvard takes pride in having a point of view, and insists that all scholars have points of view. The radicals think the senior faculty's bias toward maintaining the capitalist social system is concealed by its seemingly value-free work. MacEwan says that "to work to help coordinate the economy and advise the government--as many orthodox economists...
...shuttling between Cambridge and Washington to make clear to former President Nixon that wage and price controls were a fine thing was evidence of both the university's influence on the society's conservative leader and the conservative society's influence on the university and the direction of its neutral, pure scholarship...
...internecine character of the Economics Department struggle stems, then, not only from the radicals opposing the society that practically all of the senior faculty tacitly supports. The radicals are also calling into question the image of the academic as a neutral searcher after truth, an image upon which the entire legitimacy of the American university and the American academic depends. The radicals'view of what an intellectual is challenges directly their senior Harvard colleagues' mystique and status as independent intellectuals. The radicals portray academics largely as the ideological offshoots of the classes they represent in society and not as impartial...
...guilty, in the kind of division set up by Gaullist myths and by any government trying to administer a system of justice. There is a continuum ranging from the full-time members of the Resistance, through others willing to help out when needed; through those who try to stay neutral or who try to get something for themselves by exploiting the black market or extorting money from refugees like the Horns; toward the far end of the spectrum there is Lucien, who actually joins the Germans and enjoys it. Towards the end, just before the maquis raids the hotel...
...written on a lower energy level. Perhaps the softening for Auden thanks numbed his perceptions and dulled his creative powers. Although Auden was only 66 when he died last September, he was clearly not a man who expected to live much longer. Many of his last poems construct a "neutral" position indifferent to life and death...