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...Mike was very smart, very serious, very funnyand always aspired to a career in the publiclife," Peretz says. "He thought politics was a wayof changing society in decent ways...
...Peretz says Barrett's political moderation wasbeneficial to the learning atmosphere of thecourse...
...claim that one has been falsely accused of anti-Semitism when nothing of the sort has happened. This is the kind of hand-grenade that Professor Frank Moore Cross throws in his December 13 commentary on the Semitic Museum dispute. I don't think that any reader of Martin Peretz's November 29 Guest Commentary, "Sabotage of the Semitic Museum," could have thought Peretz was suggesting that anti-Jewish views had anything to do with Professor Lawrence Stager's position on the Semitic Museum. Indeed, I would guess that most readers would have assumed, as I did, from Professor Stager...
...weeks immediately preceding the winter break, The Crimson received a flood of letters concerning the controversy over The Semitic Museum and the Crimson guest commentaries on that subject written by Martin Peretz and Frank Moore Cross. The vast majority of the letters appearing on this page were therefore written in mid-December but were unable to be printed promptly owing to the winter break...
...read Martin Peretz's article on The Semitic Museum very carefully in The Harvard Crimson of November 29. I also read a response by Leon Levy on December 10 and Professor Frank Moore Cross on December 13 in which they write that Peretz imputed anti-Semitism to Professor Lawrence E. Stager. There is nothing in Peretz's text to justify this claim. Indeed, doing so, it seems to me, only adds confusion to an already confusing, and extraordinarily difficult, situation. W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities