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...Adam B. Ulam, the center's director and professor of Government, has an office in 106, at the middle of a long corridor on the first floor of 1737 Cambridge Street. The room resembles the kind of scholar's study that would appear in a Victorian novel: papers are everywhere, ashtrays are full of the professor's pipe tobacco and cigarette butts and books lie in every manner of arrangement--books with fifteen bookmarks, books face-down on their binding, and books lying fallow--most of them with the dull dark red covers of the University libraries...
There is a rumor around the center that a couple of years ago, one of Ulam's research assistants found the documents and materials Ulam had used to wtite his first books, roughly 25 years before. At any rate, Ulam's den is heated like a greenhouse, with the windows closed and the director sweating it out in rolled-up sleeves and undone collar...
...Ulam said the center invited Amarlik to speak at Harvard, "because he is a professional historian, not because he is a dissident." He added that the center's "interest in him is as a scholar, though we welcome certain comments about the political situation in the Soviet Union...
Soviet writers must receive an invitation from another country before their application for a passport will be considered. Ulam said the center is "glad to extend invitations so some writers could apply for a passport...
...Ulam said he is not sure of Amarlik's area of expertise but believes it to be medieval Russian history...