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...incident began during the third period of the December 8 contest, when Cornell Public Safety Officers entered the crowd to apprehend a foul character who had tied a dead chicken to the Harvard goal, according to Marc S. Lacey, a reporter for the Cornell Daily...
...brought to justice. You have to get the message to terrorists that the civilized community is opposed to what they are doing and prepared to take action to see that they don't succeed, and that they are brought to justice, so there is a cost. If you never apprehend and deal effectively with the terrorists, then they have a cost-free shot at everything...
Spurred by anger at literary injustice--sloppy thinking and extra-literary intrusions into creative and critical writing--he enters town "ready to apprehend delinquent writers' but just a little "too late to ambush the novelist John Irving, who has already ridden into town, cleaned out the banks, and ridden out again unharmed." While it is impossible to sum up Epstein's thoughts on American fiction, criticism, and literary life in general, his general theme is that "literature is going through a very bad patch at present...
...neither indict not condemn, but I do make a demand upon you and this University. I simply refuse to believe that Harvard security would seek to apprehend a "white male" who had entered a Harvard building without proper identification--or even a "white male with a moustache and wearing a dark suit"--without obtaining further descriptive information. Yet, I know that last night, officers twice stopped me, my brother, and, I suppose, several other Black males in the IAB--or at least the "tall" ones--until they had apprehended the offending parties. This University owes an explanation to its Black...
...best part of this section is the author's observation that the standard liberal dogmas of environmentalism, egalitarianism, and social engineering culminate in the politically unacceptable ideas and work of B.F. Skinner. Though Lasch does not develop the implications of this remark, this observation suggests a plausible way to apprehend the importance of Lasch's whole enterprise...