Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most part, Harvard, led by President Pusey, who succeeded James B. Conant in 1953, refused to yield to red-baiting. Yet news stories like this one in a late 1953 Crimson were common: "In a defiant reply to charges made last week by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, President Pusey yesterday declared Harvard is 'absolutely, unalterably and finally opposed to Communism,' and so far as he knows there are no communists on the Harvard faculty." Earlier, an accusation by a former Central Intelligence Agency agent forced John K. Fairbank '29, then professor of History and now Higginson Professor of History Emeritus...
...defiance, but some class members recall times when administrators forced students to consent to the Harvard line on McCarthyism. Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Calif.) remembers being "upset when the Harvard administration was very accommodating to him [McCarthy]." Beilenson and other members of the Committee on Academic Freedom, a part of the Student Council, passed a motion of censure against the administration. But after McGeorge Bundy, then dean of the Faculty, met with members of the committee, it withdrew the censure. The Council disbanded the Committee on Academic Freedom a few days later because of that administrative pressure, Beilenson says...
...November 13 launch approached, a good part of the Center for Astrophysics revved up for the mass influx of raw data that soon would be arriving. All observation plans for and information analysis from HEAO-2's 0.6-meter reflection X-ray telescope are coordinated from CRA. It took a week for the first picture to arrive on the monitors in Room 306-B. That shot was of Cygnus X-1, a radiation source which many astronomers believe is a black hole, a compressed star with gravity so strong that light cannot escape from...
...Part Three of Sleepless Nights is a dusky, beautiful, 20-page evocation of early '40s New York and Billie Holiday: "The creamy lips, the oily eyelids, the violent perfume--and in her voice the tropical l's and r's. Her presence, her singing created a large, swelling anxiety. Long red fingernails and the sound of electrified guitars. Here was a woman who had never been a Christian." So desperately important to a woman who was trying to forget that...
Russ I. Gershon '81, jazz director and acting station manager for the summer, said yesterday, "We want the station to be less a function of the school year than a part of the Cambridge atmosphere. We're striving to sound more professional...