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...adopting this stance, Patterson comes close to the administration's own currently evolving belief that the more the victim knows about the resolution of his or her case the more power the victim has to be vindictive. This whole attitude is absurd on its face. The University has no right to assume that it should be able to keep the whole thing quiet. Let it instead warm all members of the Faculty that if they do not want anyone to know that they are sexual harassers, they shouldn't sexually harass...
Keller deals at length, for example, with the familiar, perplexing question of why students may not substitute departmental courses for Core offerings. It would be patently absurd, of course, to imagine that in two years of Faculty deliberations that option never came to mind. Keller traces the conflict between "hard Core" and "soft Core" advocates, the former favoring and the latter advocating more flexibility. Basic to the discussions was the disputed definition of a "broad education"--should it stress knowledge of specific subject matter in several areas, or focus instead on introducing students to the different disciplines' "modes of inquiry...
There are those who find it absurd to put John Lennon in the august company of the Kennedy and King. The man was, after all, a rock star with long hair, into drugs, who once posed naked for an album cover and painted yellow flowers on his Rolls Royce. How easy it is to forget the impact Lennon and his Beatles cohorts had on popular and also avant-garden culture, an impact that transcended nations and people. When Lennon claimed in the mid-1960's that the Beatles were "bigger than Jesus," he wasn't boasting: it was the truth...
...Muses-showing Clio, muse of history, presenting a volume for revision to the mustachioed god in his transcendent white military greatcoat-is "objectively" a hilarious spoof, done in clumsily tight parody of the 17th century grand manner. But then, if these sleek pictorial tropes are I so absurd when lavished on Stalin, why should they be any less so when used on Louis XIV, Peter the Great or Sany other enlightened despot...
Obviously the author wonders whether writing a book on the whole subject is absurd. What can the scratch of a pen accomplish when all the big bangs turn banal in the end? Sometimes he presses too hard. The ball of fire that appeared over Siberia in 1908 never quite finds its symbolic connection to his account of the Russian Revolution. A narrative on the ill-used Anabaptists begins so remotely that a reader gets lost in the preliminary spirals. At Friedrich's high level of risk, a measure of failure is unavoidable. But what would we do without this...