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Professor of History Simson M. Schama said that the diary issue had resulted in "quite a few" informal faculty discussions...
Other Harvard Fellowship recipients included Dr. Daniel Bell, Ford Professor of Social Sciences; Barry C. Mazur, Petachek Professor of Mathematics; Alessandro Pizzorno, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies: Simson M. Schama, professor of History: Dr. Jerry Sebag, clinical fellow in Opthamology at the Medical School; Steven M. Shavell, professor of Law and Economics: Dr. Susan R. Suleiman, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; and Dr. James D. Wilkinson '65, associate professor of History...
...informal poll suggests that squash and jogging are the faculty favorites. History Professors John Brewere and Simon M. Schama, Britons both and buddies from their Cambridge University salad days, play squash together. Schama says of his colleague. "He is very hard pressed to win, and at crucial moments he goes bounding round the court uttering all manner of dire expletive undeleted. Whereas I, of course, am too naturally shy and retiring to do any such thing...
Pressed for comments about the game. Schama demurs, saying. "I never talk to The Crimson" and "There is nothing interesting about squash." He does take time to explain the difference between English and American styles. "Americans play sissy squash: they play with a fast ball so they don't have to run around. They can play be standing stil. The fastest American ball is about twice as fast as your average English ball. It just bounces off the walls and comes back to where you are. The slower the ball, the more you have...
Brewer doesn't agree with Schama's assessment of squash American-style. "He just needed an excuse for why he lost every time." Unlike Schama. Brewer plays for fun, not health. "I don't believe in keeping in shape--the rise of Puritanism is what that's all about. It's disgusting. Certainly I don't play to get fit; the idea is revolting. It's much more important to be a sybarite than to pursue physical fitness...