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...afraid of patriotism. But a meeting with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 soured his promising beginning. The meeting—in which Summers reportedly raised questions about West’s non-academic activities and informed West that he would monitor his academic output??became a public measure of Summers’s general support for affirmative action and diversity in academia. The brouhaha attracted national media attention. Summer came under attack for his abrasive style and seeming inability or unwillingness to smooth ruffled feathers. At the end of his first year, Summers?...
Alas, President Summers apparently has no such breadth of mind and spirit. And so, with his petty, narrow-minded focus on ideologically constructed concepts like “academic output?? and “grade inflation” (some have dared to suggest that a genius like West should stoop to supervise the A-heavy grading of Af-Am 10!), our president may have cost Harvard one of the most remarkable intellectuals...
...want to float above the fray, want to be like Walt Whitman, ‘both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.’” Johnson’s only shortfall is the shortness of his output??I’d like to find some more strange places to send him to and see what happens. But Seek’s ending suggests the edges of America and beyond have left him in need of a little vacation. Best let him rest...