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Shaw's novel has three interweaving plots. Christian Diestl is an Austrian would-be superman who tolerates his Nazi party comrades since they are useful for world conquest; Michael Whitacre is a Broadway character worried about the sordid emptiness of his life; Noah Ackerman is a young Jewish boy confused by modern life but determined to burst through to personal fulfillment...
Stewart believes that the villain of the piece is Dean Carl Ackerman of the Pulitzer-endowed Columbia School of Journalism, which gives the awards. He calls Ackerman "an academic apologist for the A.N.P.A., which is business-minded . . . and suspicious of change...
...wipe out Geography as a field of concentration, the excuse put forth was that "Harvard cannot hope to have strong departments in everything." At the moment when Geography threatened to become a strong department, in fact, it was eliminated. An associate professorship was proposed for Assistant Professor Edward A. Ackerman. When the Corporation turned down his appointment, thus halting the trend toward a strong department, the Division of Earth Sciences eliminated Geography for its inadequate staff...
...grade school subject. It is a field for research experts, and the Regional Studies Program started last year depends as much on those experts in Geography as in History, Economics, or Government. The Program has been fortunate, as has the Department itself, in having the services of Mr. Ackerman, one of the country's leading experts on the human geography of the Far East. He was granted a leave of absence to head the survey of the Japanese Islands for the coming peace treaty and also organized Japan's first National Planning Board. He returned in February and has resumed...
There is no specialist in Russian geography connected with the University at the present time. It has, therefore, been necessary to import a visitor from outside to give the various geographical seminars on that country. When Mr. Ackerman's appointment ends, the geographical study of China will be placed on the same basis. It will be very difficult, indeed, to find a man of equal ability...