Word: sacvan
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Next year, after Emerson expert and English Chairman Joel Porte leaves the University to accept a fulltime post at Cornell University next year, the department will have only one full-time Americanist on the faculty. Professor of English Sacvan Bercovitch, who was lured away from Columbia University in 1983, will have to hold down the fort alone next year. Ironically, he came to Harvard saying he hoped to lead a renaissance of the study of American culture...
...changing parameters that determine what works of American literature will be considered classics, was moderated by Werner Sollors, professor of American literature and language and of Afro-American Studies. Barbara Johnson, professor of French and comparative literature, Nathan Huggins, DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies and Sacvan Bercovitch, Carswell Professor of English and American Literature and Language also participated in the forum...
...purchased this day's issue of your paper for one of the front-page stories and read with interest "From Radicalism to Puritanism, Sacvan Bercovitch Searches On." I quote: "Like the other radicals of the 1920s, she was riled by the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the famous anarchists who were hanged in Boston for treason during the Red Scare...
...very interesting story of September 27 about Professor Sacvan Berkovitch and the origin of his first name. The Crimson stated that the famous anarchist Sacco and Vanzetti, "were hanged in Boston for treason during the Red Scare." They were not indicted for treason but for killing a guard during an armed robbery, and they were not hanged but electrocuted, as I have first-hand reason to know...
Robinson's decision is the second personnel move in the English Department announced in the last week. On Friday, Columbia Puritan specialist Sacvan Bercovich said that he had accept a Harvard tenure offer...