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Much of the new serenity appears to stem from the leadership of Dwight H. Perkins, whom Bok asked to become HIID's director in April--only a few days after Harberger had declined the position, and only a few weeks after Perkins resigned from the chairmanship of the search committee...
Colleagues say Perkins, a former chairman of the Economics Department who has been a faculty fellow at the HIID since 1968, has improved HIID's image and strengthened its links to other divisions of the University.
Because of last spring's furor, Perkins says, his first task as director was to convince the institute's "key people" to stay on. How much discontent there was, he won't say--"Let's just say that everybody's reasonably happy now, and no one did leave. . . I certainly...
Both Harberger's former opponents and his supporters join in a chorus of praise for Perkins, who has established joint programs between the HIID and the faculties of the Kennedy School of Government, the School of Public Health, and the School of Education. Similar ties with the Anthropology Department are...
Critics came in for rougher treatment. Edmund Wilson boosted young Hemingway's career in the '20s. By the time of To Have and Have Not, The Fifth Column and For Whom the Bell Tolls, the critic was using phrases like "a growing antagonism to women" and "the all...