Word: subject
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Picnic At Hanging Rock. Peter Weir's metaphysical mystery about the disappearance of several adolescent girls from a Victorian boarding school is often hilariously overdone, but the subject is eerie and the idea has potential...
Today, many leading members of the caucus still bristle at the mere mention of the words "Harvard Strike," or even the year 1969. Most refuse to talk about the subject. George B. Kistiakowsky, professor of Chemistry Emeritus and a former caucus leader, went so far as to say he does not remember anything that went on ten years ago: "I plead the Fifth Amendment," he added. John T. Dunlop, Lamont Professor of Economics, who was dean of the Faculty during the early '70s, refused even to listen to questions about the strike...
Even for those who agree to speak about the strike, the subject remains sensitive. The term "conservative," for instance, still irritates some former members of the caucus, who claim they were moderates. "There was no such thing as a 'conservative' caucus except in the eyes of those who wanted to tar their colleagues," asserts Arthur Maass, professor of Government and a participant in the meetings. "The only thing that united them (caucus members) was loyalty to the University, not outside forces...
Edward L. Keenan '50, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and chairman of the committee, said the Faculty charged the committee two years ago to investigate the possibilities of women's studies, defining the subject and examine ways to introduce women's studies into the curriculum...
Like their predecessor Alfred Kinsey. they have found that poking into the sex lives of Americans can be unsettling. Their first and most impressive book. Human Sexual Response, published in 1966, was a meticulous, pioneering inquiry into the physiology of sex; it dispelled myths about this taboo subject that even doctors believed in-for example, that sexual activity stops with age. But their work, especially such controversial aspects of it as their use of sexual surrogates as partners assisting in the treatment of impotent men. brought upon them the wrath of the pious...