Word: schlauch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Margaret Schlauch (Barnard, '18) has been a member of the English faculty of New York University. Since she seldom discussed politics-never dragged them into her Chaucer classes-it never seemed to make any difference that she called herself a "Marxist." Last week Margaret Schlauch's friends remembered her quiet Marxism with a shock. Writing from Stockholm, she told N.Y.U. that instead of coming back she was taking a job at the Communist-dominated University of Warsaw...
America, Professor Schlauch feared, was no longer for her. "I am afraid that the economic and political future at home is not auspicious, not even for a Chaucer specialist, if such a person has been and still is a Marxist (no matter how undogmatic) and doesn't intend to deny it; and if she moreover condemns the foreign policy leading...
...letter had a more personal side. Last year Professor Schlauch's younger sister Helen and Helen's Polish-born husband, a mathematician at the University of Toronto, sold their house in Canada and moved to Warsaw. Her brother-in-law told Margaret last summer that she, too, could have "some kind of post...
Wrote Margaret Schlauch: "I'm sitting in a hotel room in Stockholm at this minute, looking out on a cold grey sky, trying to realize what all this means...
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