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Article: Divided legacy Noam Chomsky's theory of linguistics revolutionized the field, but his radical political analysis is what gave him a cult following. When people mention his name a century from now, which Chomsky will they mean?
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 19, 1995
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The man once called the most important intellectual alive keeps
his office in a ramshackle barrack of a building, across from some
railroad tracks, deep in the industrial interior of the campus of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Known simply as Building 20,
the structure was built in 1943 as a radar and electronics lab. Drab
and ill-ventilated, with sagging walls and floors, it's been slated
for demolition for years. Yet still it stands, an icon of another
age. This is where to find Noam Chomsky.
Walk down a creaky hallway, turn left, and he is there, the
slight, salt-and-pepper-haired, 67-year-old man who revolutionized
the study of language. The man who, in the process, ...