Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three weeks after Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy, renounced his affiliation with the Progressive Labor party (PL), Ruth A. Putnam, his wife, joined the party's ranks...
However, Ruth Putnam, associate professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College, denied yesterday that her decision to join the revolutionary communist party was related to her husband's action...
...Hilary Putnam, who was the only tenured Faculty member in PL, left the party last December. He told The Crimson last Monday that he had been disenchanted with the party for some time and that he opposes its dogmatism...
...Ruth Putnam refused to comment on her husband's resignation from PL. The 45-year-old specialist in political and moral philosophy, is now the first and only Wellesley professor in the Progressive Labor party...
...students said yesterday that Ruth Putnam is not typical of Wellesley professors in other ways. "She's not your average well-groomed Wellesley professor in tailored suits and neatly combed hair," a Wellesley sophomore said yesterday...