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...defense of multiculturalism frames Gates' on-target attack on the right. The second essay, "The Master's Pieces," opens with a scathing assault on former Secretary of Education William Bennett and cultural critic Allan Bloom '56, chargins that they "symbolize for us the nostalgic return to what I think of as the 'antebellum aesthetic position,' when men were men, and men were white, when scholar-critics were white men, and when women and persons of color were voiceless, faceless servants,...filling brandy snifters in the boardrooms of old boy's clubs...
...Goodman '79, a news editor for WBAI/Pacifica Radio, and Allan Nairn, a reporter for the New Yorker, who both spoke last night at the Kennedy School, witnessed the November 12 massacre and were nearly killed themselves by the Indonesian soldiers. The soldiers beat the reporters with the butts of their M-16s, fracturing Nairn's skull, The two journalists believe that it is only the fact that they are American that saved their lives...
...minorities -- but not at the denigration of D.W.M.s (Dead White Males). Robert Wood, who is Henry Luce professor of Democratic Institutions and the Social Order at Wesleyan University, argues for balance. "In the past five years, we have generally had two counsels on curriculum, and they're both wrong. Allan Bloom ((The Closing of the American Mind)) and others basically say, 'Don't read anything after the Age of the Enlightenment.' Then we have our present multicultural movement saying every culture should be explored. We need some consensus on this. What we should do is concentrate on how to train...
...smooth out the edges of the process. We would appreciate that the administration and the media give the conclusions of the body of our report the consideration that they deserve, rather than contenting themselves with the facial and inconsequential fulfillment of an overly narrow interpretation of our recommendations. Allan H. Erbsen '94 Assistant Director Civil Liberties Union of Harvard
...December 1986 report written by Harvard attorney Allan A. Ryan urged professors to obtain permissions for everything they copy for a course--the same position that the AAP currently promotes...