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<DIV><FONT size=4>Jerry Monaco says:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>"The U of C[hicago] in my day... If you stayed away from the B-school
and the Law School as an undergrad you were pretty safe from the coarse
ideologies and then you only had to deal with the Maoists or the Sparts in the
quad, for your quota of ideology. "</DIV>
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<DIV>What about the Straussians in the College, infesting Soc I, Ralph Lerner,
etc.? As junior faculty and then fired, I had as much difficulty with these
people as with Boorstin et al in the History Dept. And there was a strange
alliance between Straussians and Hutchinsonians, both happy to study ideas in a
vacuum (as in The People Shall Judge), furious when in the early 60s I brought
social history to Soc I, thus messing up their sterile interpretations of
Washington's Farewell etc. The larger complex made it difficult for the
extremely smart SDS chapter (Steve Kindred, Chris Hobson) to organize students
who thought they were in a radical institution and were unaware of just how
conservative it was, both in the College and in the Divisions and Schools.
Bettelheim, Menshikov, Boorstin, Friedman -- all had an impact on undergraduate
life. It's wrong to think of the College as at odds with the overall atmosphere
of the place.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Interestingly, there was just a reunion of a special Yale
program called Directed Studies, another Great Books program. (I was in it as an
undergraduate). Albeit with some exceptions, the celebration teemed with
right-wing speakers. Whenever and wherever I hear that ancient cry, "Back to the
core," I reach for my revolver.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Jesse Lemisch</FONT></DIV>
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