Word: peretz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assistant professor of Social Studies Martin Peretz, a striking contrast to McCarthy with his long brown beard, brown plaid suit, red polka-dot shirt and white tie, parades the Candidate around. A few hands are shaken, then McCarthy is ready to begin. He sits on the arm of a big red easy chair and the meeting starts...
Martin H. Peretz, assistant professor of Social Studies, said about Walzer's award. "I can think of few colleagues who would merit the award as much. He's a spectacular teacher--and even spectacular is not a strong enough word...
...Peretz shares a general Faculty concern that McGovern will be unable to attract wide-scale support, and he distrusts Muskie's political judgment. Referring to Muskie's trip to South Vietnam in 1967, during which the Senator said that the Thieu victory of that year was a free election. Peretz says: "I'm like the Old Baptists: people can redeem themselves with secular versions of penance. But this is pretty late. I would be very wary of the type of judgments Muskie would make...
...McCarthy himself, and what his real intentions are. Peretz said, "I think he wants to be President, but he doesn't think he's indispensable. He may think he's better than the other candidates being talked of now. Those of us who worked for McCarthy made him into a white knight and made his every failing a maximum sin. I do not understand why the liberals feel so bitter about...
Those faculty members queried seemed to split evenly on whether the potentially large youth vote would make an actual difference in the election. Chayes and Wald thought that students would be active and would affect the campaign, Bunting and Peretz were less sanguine...