Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred and thirty-one non-permanent teaching officers asked that eight professors--and not the Administration--study the entire tenure problem and specifically make recommendations about Walsh and Sweezy. The eight men, including Professors Morison, Shapley, Schlesinger, and Felix Frankfurtor, wrote to Conant asking that he appoint a special committee as the instructors had requested and adding that if he would not, the eight would not, the eight would investigate anyway...
...discussion group meets fortnightly, debating almost anything. Clyde Kluckhohn, for example spoke to the group about the female Kinsey report, and Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Economist Seymour Harris have also been recent guests. Two tutors recently formed a poetry group which plans to invite local poets to the House for informal meetings. There is a play-reading group, an art committee, which sponsors eight exhibits a year, and a house newspaper, the Oak Leaf, published occasionally...
...book, "McCarthy and His Enemies," L. Brent Bozell and Williams F. Buckley, Jr. reiterate charges that Shapley was a member of numerous Communist front organizations while he was unofficially employed by the State Department as a member of a United Nations missions...
...There is nothing to be gained by denying these charges," Shapley said. "They are the same old accusations repeated over and over again...
Only four pages of the book are devoted to Shapley, and the authors also examine charges against John Stewart Service, Owen Lattimore, and others in an attempt "to throw down a bold challenge to the writers, teachers, and politicians who regard McCarthyism and Communism as twin evils and who profess to see in the former the more imminent danger to our freedom...