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...Forum motivated by a desire to participate in the "marketplace of ideas," the arena where ideas are articulated, tested, and refuted. He advanced no new ideas, nor even old ones in new ways. Instead, his speech must be seen in a political context--perhaps a testing of the waters alter Grenada and before the Presidential season (or even a possible invasion of Nicaragua). In that case, political opposition would have done well to be as vocal and militant as possible...
...answer the obvious question of low minority representation in the Faculty. Aside from spouting rhetoric on the subject (including an October report of the University's dismal percentages of tenured and minority faculty), this institution has done little to alter the alarmingly low numbers...
...Hall, the extension of the Fogg Museum. Must they? Bury Hall, the previous occupant on that land, was innocuous enough. At least it did not hinder one's enjoyment of Gund Hall or William James Hall. Did I say enjoyment? Sorry, I meant toleration Even better was the land alter Burr had been demolished, when no building sat there...
...past and present Administrations have supported the 10 warhead 70 It, leviathan MX because the Soviets have weapons even larger. Instead of thinking beyond the Soviets clumsy and weak nuclear doctrine, our leaders copied it and at huge expense. Bigger is not better and more destructive weapons no longer alter the "balance of terror"; they only make the "rubble bounce...
There is also the matter of Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's fictional alter id and hero of a comic trilogy that has forever flattened the myth of the glamorous writing life. Zuckerman, of course, is not Roth but rather the fullest and most personal expression of a theme that has come to dominate his work: the mayhem unleashed by those who would escape their pasts. This may be what David Kepesh in Roth's The Professor of Desire had in mind when he spoke stiltedly of "the destructive power-of those who see a way out of the shell...