Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sidney Hook's attack on certain popular figures [April 28] brings to mind another false idol of our time: Bertolt Brecht. Brecht's purpose was not to bring down the Nazis but that tender sprout of democracy, the Weimar Republic. Rather than undermine the Nazi movement, Brecht et al. made the brown-shirted thugs acceptable to millions of middle-class Germans ("Somebody's got to do something!"), and thus contributed to the eventual rise of Hitler...
...said he had asked George C. Homans '32, professor of Sociology, to serve as acting dean until Sidney Verba '53, professor of Government, returns from a year-long subbatical in the fall of 1981 to take over...
Next year's students will face these uphill struggles alone. Sidney Verba '53, professor of Government, chosen to replace outgoing Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Glen W. Bowersock '57, will be on sabbatical; because Rosovsky did not deem it necessary to appoint a temporary replacement, students will lack an administrative ally during the critical early stage of Core and tutorial legislation, a time when many educational reforms are just beginning to gather momentum. Deprived of their most valuable resource, students must assume even more initiative in calling for better teaching at Harvard: they must rise from spectators to actors...
NONFICTION: Maugham, Ted Morgan Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook * Show People, Kenneth Tynan * The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger * The Life of Katherine Mansfield, Antony Alpers * Thirty Seconds, Michael J. Arlen
This split manifested itself in the most spirited debate of the convention, over the economic plank of the party platform. A delegate from Ohio rose to denounce the plank, formulated by Sidney Lens, a well-known socialist author calling it simply a "wish list" and describing it as "old fashioned socialism." Lens vigorously rebutted these charges, thrusting the meeting into a flurry of accusations and counter-accusations of intellectual dogmatism and shortsightedness...