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...yesterday's article on the 16 Faculty members named to the Student-Faculty Advisory Council, the Crimson inadvertently omitted the name of Martin H. Peretz, instructor in Social Studies...
...hands are joining in Ramparts salutes these days. Conspicuously absent is Principal Stockholder and onetime Publisher Edward Keating, who was discovered "plotting" against the magazine last spring, as his detractors put it. The latest dropout is another major stockholder, Martin Peretz, 28, a Harvard lecturer in government who has contributed substantially to the magazine as well as to other New Left causes. He is also married to Anne Farnsworth, a Singer Sewing Machine heiress...
What bothers Peretz, he says in Commentary magazine, is Ramparts' anti-Jewish attitude toward the Arab-Israeli war. Editor Hinckle, says Peretz, likes to be "flippy"-that is, perverse in a flip, hippie sort of way. This translates into articles like the one Peretz calls "the most carefully selective and skewed history of the conflict to come from any source save possibly the propaganda machines of the respective parties." The article "occasionally takes note of Nasser's calculating politics," says Peretz, but "settles the burden of tragic events squarely on Israel." All of this fits what Peretz says...
...struggle against this terrible war is elsewhere than Harvard. To focus obsessively, as some have shown signs of doing, on this community and its local problems is a solipsistic and fundamentally irrelevant diversion from the political arena, where even now one may yet strike blows for peace. Martin Peretz Instructor in Social Studies
...Peretz also said that he considers Harvard's relationship with the outside world to be the issue raised by the Dow demonstration. "What I object to is the wide-spread assumption that Harvard is non-political," Peretz said. "That's simply not true...