Word: putnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years. But their frustration has now reached a pitch of militancy verging on panic--or revolution. "This war is such a wretched extremity that almost anything is justified," said a sympathetic Faculty member. "I think it would have been right to take the Pentagon apart stone by stone," Hillary Putnam, professor of Philoosphy, added. "The war continues unabated although millions of Americans are now against it. Because of the undemocratic nature of our society, there is nothing we can do but take things into our own hands to end it," Michael Ansara '68 said...
Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy, demanded yesterday that all persons who implicated themselves in Wednesday's sit-in receive equal punishment if any punishment is to be meted...
...Putnam said at a rally in Harvard Yard, "If there is to be any punishment, I ask to be included in that punishment." Putnam told a crowd of 500 that he demanded equal punishment for all even though he thought the sit-in tactic a mistake, and one not democratically arrived at. (The sit-in idea had been turned down at a Students for a Democratic Society meeting Tuesday night...
...small number of Faculty members and teaching fellows made statements of support to the demonstrators. They included Barrington Moore, professor of Government, Hillary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy, Michael Walzer, associate professor of Government, and Chester W. Hartman '57, professor of City Planning...
...draft cards to be collected today in Boston and in nearly 40 other cities, will be delivered to the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. on Friday afternoon by a contingent of clergymen, educators, and writers. By publicly helping violators of the selective service laws, the group--including Hilary Putnam professor of Philosophy, Norman Mailer '43, Robert Lowell '37, Ashley Montagu, and Dr. Coffin--will be subject to arrest for "aiding and abetting...