Word: shattuck
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...light sides of the Western intellectual quest. You see the twinning in the Faust legend. In the Medieval reading of it, Faust is damned to hell for his pact to obtain supernatural powers of knowledge from the devil - an act of human encroachment upon divine prerogatives. But (as Roger Shattuck points out in his splendid book "Forbidden Knowledge"), the Enlightenment gave Faust an opposite reading. The German dramatist G.E. Lessing's Faust, in the mid-eighteenth century, was not damned for his pact with the devil, but, on the contrary, saved, because of his now admirable striving after knowledge...
Last Friday, the Times reported that Mathematica Policy Research, a think tank that provides academic data, took the unusual step of questioning the conclusions of a school vouchers study by Shattuck Professor of Government Paul E. Peterson...
Those who worked with Shattuck at Harvard say that he was an effective insider, both in Mass. Hall and in Washington, D.C., while others emphasize Shattuck's active role in the Cambridge community...
...John took a very, very great interest in community relations," said Jane Corlette, an associate vice president who worked with Shattuck. "He had three kids in Cambridge public schools. He became a very concerned citizen...
...points out that for all the good that can be said of him, Shattuck has a dark side: a "morbid love of New Haven" that he shares with Daly, both of whom graduated from Yale College...