Word: 20th
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...their Crimson letter (April 28), the Black Law Students Association and Muhammad Kenyatta enmesh themselves in contradictory statements. Thus they reject the charge I and Professor Orlando Patterson made (April 25), that they used the PLO representative's appearance here on April 20th to thumb their nose at those precious intellectual norms of fairness and free speech, and then proceed unwittingly to reveal that they in fact have very little respect for these norms. I have several reactions to their letter...
Jackson is an ethnic-group candidate of the sort that wrested the 20th-century Democratic majority away from a half-century-long Republican ascendancy. If the party is too ossified to grasp that it deserves to decline. But why castigate Jackson for serving his constituency rather than his party? Hirschorn mimics several syndicated columnists in regretting Jackson's bid to change primary run-off rules in the South that have barred Black candidacies; revising procedures would send racist Southern whites charging into the arms of the Republican Party, we're told. So what? That might be a blessing in disguise...
...plans made by the famous author of the book, Mythologies, Roland Barthes. In the mid-fifties, notes Jardine, Barthes put together trends that had begun in European thought as far back as the Stoics, but had been first formalized by the Swede, Saussure, at the turn of the 20th century. Usually thought of as a literary study confined to language, Barthes reapplied the technique to the world of everyday things, trying to find meaning in the immediate world, for which there was nothing immedeidately visible. Barthes' approach, notes Jardine, and that of his disciples, was always used...
CHESTNUT HILL--Bobby Kay celebrated his 20th birthday. Jim Chenevey his first college start Gaylord Lyman celebrated his recovery from the flu; Tony DiCesare his incredible hitting streak. Elliott Rivera and Doug Sutton just celebrated...
This dual publication appears to be as reckless as it is immodest. In 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939, Britain's Anthony Burgess sets up a personal pantheon of later 20th century fiction; then, in Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby, he offers the latest sample of his own handiwork in that line...