Doug: Richard Falk, political scientist at Princeton, told me in 1976 that Chomsky told him that he, Chomsky, would not do any more work on semantics until he had fulfilled his personal mission of making the world better. There was a lot of enthusiasm then on the prospect of a new world order, of north-south dialogue, etc., much of the activities supported financially by liberal capitalists and foundations. I remember Falk saying something to the effect that he was glad Chomsky already had tenure. Henry Doug Henwood wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >For myself, noting and agreeing with the assertion of the general function of > >institutions like MIT in capitalist society and as instruments of expanded > >reproduction of that system, a few like Noam Chomsky do slip through and > >manage to survive. > > It was explained to me once that at MIT, Chomsky is thought of as the > Einstein of linguistics, a scientific giant. His politics are marginal to > that reputation - just a personality quirk I guess. > > Doug
