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...April 1969, under heavy pressure from students and a very small number of faculty members, the Afro-American studies department was founded at Harvard. A first, there was only one tenured black professor in the University, Martin L. Kilson, Thomson professor of government...
...title, Don DeLillo's 11th and most ambitious novel is not about organized crime. DeLillo takes on nothing less ambitious than the buried life of the cold war, the specter of nuclear annihilation as experienced by a large group of vividly rendered characters. The story begins with Bobby Thomson's famous home run in 1951 and moves back and forth over the following four decades, showing how we all got here from there...
...some interesting things to say. And last spring the Nieman Fellows spent some hours interrogating that notable non-Stalinist newspaper publisher, William Loeb, in Manchester, New Hampshire. This Foundation's tradition is, in fact, as your editorial complains, "eclectic"--and we mean to keep it that way. James C. Thomson Jr. Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism
...There have been some amusing examples" of mistakes on the part of the prize-awarding committees, Glashow said. He cited the 1906 and 1937 Nobel prizes in physics which recognized J.J. Thomson for discovering the electron as a particle, and subsequently his son for discovering it as a wave...
...American society that leads him to talk in almost jocular terms about the white supremacist and anti-Semitic prone World Church of the Creator-a core Christian identity group-as if it were just some silly old bunch or "group of horrible people." -Martin Kilson, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government