Word: talcott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Faculty members of the committee are Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House; Juan Marichal, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Charles A. Whitney, professor of Astronomy; Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology; Harold Amos, professor of Bacteriology and Immunology; and John F. Kain, associate professor of Economics...
John V. Kelleher, Celtic; Seymour Martin Lipset, Government; Albert B. Lord '34; Slavic Lang. and Lit.; Matthew S. Meselson, Biochemistry; Talcott Parsons, Social Relations; Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, History...
...John Adams and the default of history. Adams founded the Academy in 1779, in imitation of the Royal Society in Britain. Later presidents of the Academy, Louis Agassiz in particular, continued the Harvard influence and arranged for Academy headquarters in Brookline. The most recent two presidents, Paul Freund and Talcott Parsons, have also been from Harvard...
...editors consult a larger planning commission, usually associated with the Academy. The Overview Committee on the Goverance of Universities, for instance, met last April to plan a conference and volume on "Academic Ethics: Rights an Responsibilities." The Committee counts among its 15 members David Riesman, Daniel Bell, Martin Duberman, Talcott Parsons, Carl Kaysen, Neil Rudenstine, and two college presidents. They commissioned the articles, sent out invitations to the authors, and selected the critics and panelists for the conference (set over a half-year later). The conference--numbering 25 to 30 people--often takes place at the House of the Academy...
...students of the famous sociologist--many of them lounging with him on the grass--say that he writes in Hebrew like Talcott Parsons writes in English. The American students remark that he even writes in English Parsonesquely. He is not universally loved: "When I came to Hebrew University I was looking for an excuse to get out of sociology, and professor Eisenstadt gave it to me," an Israeli philosophy student remarked. But for most of his students and for nearly all the academic world, Eisenstadt's work is exciting, brilliant, and extraordinarily relevant...