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...architect. The book--The Fountainhead--told the story of a man who dynamited a public housing project because officials had altered his design in violation of previous promises. Despite rejections from 12 publishers, the book was eventually published. It sold over three million copies and earned Rand thousands of staunch admirers...
...years ago next month, Chester W. Hartman '57, an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Design, was told that his contract would not be renewed the following year. Hartman, a staunch advocate of socially-oriented city planning who opposed Harvard's housing policies in Cambridge, had founded the Urban Field Service in 1968. In 1969, he worked with radical Harvard political groups during a Spring which culminated in the occupation of University Hall...
Finally, I should like to make clear that my unwillingness to build a new House does not imply any lack of support for the House system, for which I am a staunch advocate. In today's financial climate, however, if we were to wait until we could raise the millions of dollars required to build a House, the proposal would have to be postponed for an indefinite period. As a result, it seems prefereable to proceed immediately to develop some imaginative new form of housing that will be attractive at least for the students who will occupy it. If funds...
...Your vote will not be forgotten or forgiven." Deputy Labor Leader Roy Jenkins, the staunch pro-Marketeer who led his party's rebels, put his job on the line; he must stand for re-election to his post this week and could well be dumped by vengeful colleagues. As Jenkins left the Commons, a Labor backbencher chanted: "Traitor, traitor...
Hartman, who founded the Urban Field Service (UFS) in 1968, was eased out in 1970 by Isaacs, Nash and Vigier primarily because his staunch support of advocacy planning and his political militance against Harvard's housing policies in Cambridge ran counter to their view of what a planner's role in society should be. In recommending that Hartman's contract not be renewed, Nash, who was the department chairman at the time, wrote that "(Hartman's) method of teaching conveys a sense of political strategy (that goes past) the substance of city and regional planning. (His) loyalties to the School...