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Diana L. Eck is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society, president of the American Academy of Religion, and master of Lowell House...
...connection not lost on some of Spillane's excoriators. Frederic Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent was an indictment of comic books and their supposedly toxic influence on kids; the only novelist Wertham mentioned was Spillane. In a way, that was acute. The kids who read comics before World War II were ready for stronger stuff, but with the same bold, obvious, shall we say cartoonish verve. And Wertham was right in fearing that the comic-book worldview was one that would not fade, like acne, as the kids grew up. They would demand adolescent popular art forever...
Diana L. Eck, the Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society, said after the meeting that Wisse’s remarks “don’t make much of an impression on the Faculty” because of their “extreme” nature...
...group Muslim Brotherhood, has been unfairly banned from visiting the country on the basis of a Patriot Act statute meant to deny entry to those who endorse terrorism. “The government is using this law to censor and manipulate political debate,” said Eck, the Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society. Eck said that she was shocked when she learned that Ramadan, a Swiss citizen and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, had been denied entry to the United States. “He is one of the foremost thinkers and interpreters...
...then there was a freshman dean who would give me all the difficult cases, the legacy cases,” he said, adding that after some of them failed, “I said no.”Three house masters—McCarthy, Lowell House Master and Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society Diana L. Eck, and Cabot House Master and Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris—said that advising should be moved to more informal settings, particularly the Houses, where both students and faculty will feel more comfortable interacting with each other...