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According to one source in the department, the disclosures dissolved away Kearns's unanimous support; a small contingent, including Judith N. Shklar, the only tenured woman in the department, called the publicity irrelevant and said the faculty should stand behind its decision, and a second group maintained the department had made a mistake and should admit it by reversing itself. But the great majority of Gov faculty remained somewhere in the middle--generally favorable to Kearns but concerned that the book would not turn out to be the scholarly work they had reviewed...
Judith N. Shklar, who became professor of Government earlier this year, is the only other woman Faculty member in the department...
Accordingly, she believes in accepting people at their word and wishes, when it comes to what a person wants out of life, even if it can't be the vast amount Shklar has managed to achieve. "Maybe it's because I'm a foreigner," she jokes, "but I always take people at their word. When I was in school, the women I knew there were at the top of the class." She throws this out with a kind of proud matter-of factness. "When most of them said that they preferred married life. I believed them. Perhaps I was naive...
...patterns of earlier years still hold true in the Shklar household where Mrs. Shklar and her husband (a professor at Harvard Medical School) don't have time to go out, except separately, each with a different child, to concerts and the like. An extremely close-knit family, they prefer to stay home and make their own music. Predictably brushing off her own merits as a pianist, Mrs. Shklar is lavish with her praise of the musical talents of the rest of the family. "I'm square," she says repeatedly, and this is the same term she uses for her taste...
...says of the great figures of whom she writes (Rousseau Hegel). Judith Shklar "defies classification." Her surprising humility and the bitterness that sometimes tinged her conversation stem, one of her students thinks, from her own philosophical and humanitarian goals. While appreciating herself what the contradictions of man's existence are, she is constantly distressed at what a botch people have made and make in trying to resolve them. More than anyone she is aware of the possibly irreducible contradictions in human life, but she also feels that it is one's obligation to life and reason to make...