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Published in New York Times Sunday, January 28, 1990 To the Editor: While ''America Needs Its Nerds'' (Op-Ed, Jan. 11) by Leonid Fridman, a Harvard student, may be correct in its message that Americans should treat intellectualism with greater respect, his identification of the ''nerd'' as guardian of this intellectual tradition is misguided. Mr. Fridman maintains that anti-intellectualism [...]

written by Leonid Fridman (appeared in The New York Times 1990) There is something very wrong with the system of values in a society that has only derogatory terms like nerd and geek for the intellectually curious and academically serious. A geek, according to Webster’s New World Dictionary, is a street performer who shocks the public by biting off heads of live [...]