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Beginning in the column to the left is an affidavit written by A. Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT and noted antiwar activist and author. In the column to the right is an affidavit written by journalist Fred Branfman to accompany Chomsky...
Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, and Noam Chomsky, Ward Professor of Linguistics at MIT, were also scheduled to appear for questioning yesterday. Popkin did not appear because his attorney was unable to accompany him and will appear today, instead. Chomsky was released from questioning pending a court hearing, which will take place today, on his motion to have his subpoena quashed...
...continuing public affairs series include The Advocates, a mock-trial show grappling with nettlesome subjects like last week's "Should the Government drop charges against Dr. Daniel Ellsberg?" Top-level advocates are always on the dock (the premiere about Ellsberg featured ex-Senator Ernest Gruening and Professor Noam Chomsky), but in the past the program has as often sensationalized or trivialized public debate as it has illuminated...
Gruening and Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at MIT, defended Ellsberg during the taping of The Advocates, a weekly series on WGBH--TV. The segment will be televised on Channel 2 at 8:30 p.m. next Tuesday...
...Also, like all lovers, he is less disturbed by those who neglect his beloved than by his rivals in attendance. The man who brings out the best, and the worst, in Steiner is the most prestigious specialist in linguistics today, Noam Chomsky. Steiner, with romance in his heart and the ultimate language of poetry on his lips, approaches linguistics on his knees. Chomsky, full of crisp talk about "data handling" and "feedback," confronts language in a white smock-the scientist of semantics. "Is there, in fact, a 'linguistic science'?" Steiner asks, arguing that the new scientific dogmatism about...