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...Norton Professorship is not confined to poets. Architects and painters have occupied the professorship under a definition of poetry as "all poetic expression in language, music or the fine arts." Five other composers, including Igor Stravinsky and Aaron Copeland, have held the post...
...should try to be regarded as "humble, competent people, on a level with dentists." Simon Kuznets, who was awarded the $90,000 tax-free Nobel Prize for economics last week, is notable both for his competence and for his humility. Russian-born Kuznets, 70, who retired from a Harvard professorship last July, coined the term "gross national product" and did much to develop it as a gauge of economic performance. His strength has always been in insisting on collection of data, rather than in the construction of abstract theories. John Kenneth Galbraith thinks that Kuznets' work paralleled that...
Several members insisted that such condemnation had already been the fate of former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, now a professor of international law at the University of Georgia, and former National Security Affairs Adviser Walt Rostow, whose professorship at M.I.T. was lost after his White House years. Said one council member: "Let's face it, it was a spineless, disgusting spectacle on the part of the intelligentsia. Rusk and Rostow were brutally punished for what they believed to be right, precisely by the people who have sonorously argued for diverse views and the freedom to express them...
...looks perpetually at the unfilled holes, the yearned for and the barely attainable; his is a personal coming to terms with a world of irreconcilable powers. The painter bodies forth optimism ... the draftsman cannot escape his more negative vision, beyond appearances." So Klinger the painter moved sedately between a professorship in Leipzig and his country vineyard, turning out the portraits and allegories his patrons sought, and ignoring the obsessions which Klinger the draftsman could not deny himself...
...there is no room, or time, for second thoughts. Perhaps the only consolation is that his professorship at the Law School will still be there 15 years from now if he wants it. He might just take it if his impression-founded in a conversation with Yale's Kingman Brewster and Chicago University President Edward Levi-is correct that "some [university] presidents enjoy their work... it is not necessarily a form of intellectual and academic suicide...