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...Saint Charles, a ship since dubbed "the Jewish Mayflower," arrived in what is now New York Harbor with 23 Jews aboard. They were fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. It is their descendants-including the Nathan, Gratz, Seixas, Franks and Lopez families-that Birmingham examines. They consider themselves the nobility of American Jewry because their heritage can be traced back to medieval Spain and Portugal, where their ancestors lived as grandees-Spanish or Portuguese noblemen of the first rank...
...Harvard alumni in Maryland, in perhaps his last public speech, President Nathan Pusey made a passing remark on the difficulties of administering a college and university founded on the principle of freedom, when faculty and administrative personnel attended other colleges with other cultural traditions. How can members of the Harvard faculty and administration who never graduated from Harvard College, really understand the passion, or Puritanical zeal of Harvard College graduates for freedom and mutual respect in the search for truth? How can Harvard students, equipped by their faculty with a double standard on academic freedom, convince an American in grave...
...relative unpopularity of the style all militate against either a decent production or a box office success. The main reason. it seems, Lowell House was able to stage its elaborate production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress is the hundred and fifty or so opera patrons, ranging from Nathan Pusey to McGeorge Bundy, who paid twenty dollars apiece for the privilege of attending Thursday night's black tie opening and reception in the Lowell House dining hall...
Among the famous recipients of the Bowdoin Prize are Ralth Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, Richard Henry Dana, Class of 1851, and Nathan M. Pusey...
...hero. Many others sought refuge in the oversimple conclusion that Calley was merely a scapegoat. Some echoed the argument of Calley's chief defense counsel, George Latimer, that the Army sent Calley to Viet Nam to kill and should not punish him for doing precisely that. Says Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer: "Who is at fault? The people who gave the orders or the people who fought? This question will dominate American politics for the next ten years...