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From the student perspective, Dawkins says, "White professors tend to ignore the social implications of literature." Yet others say it is not color that matters, but expertise. Herron admits to "being a classicist" and adds, "I don't like prolonged periods of working with texts that are apt to bring up what is emotional in myself." Authors such as Alice Walker tend to tie themselves up with intense emotion where classic writers like Homer lend themselves to a more intellectual reading of the text, she says...
...play is a jumble of shouting voices until a police inspector (Jeff Wise) shows up. Wise, in an apt parody of the know-it-all British detective, deduces an utterly fraudulent solution to the problem. When the correct answer emerges, our understanding of the play is no clearer; in Stoppard, the process, not the plot, is the point...
...quotation of the month following the release of the Tower Commission report. Members of the commission used the quotation when talking about the lack of supervision which they said led to mismanagement and possibly to financial illegality in the Iran-Contra affair. "Quis custodiat ipsos custodes" may be equally apt in scrutinizing the financial operations of the Undergraduate Council...
Others say they think society is more apt to listen to these groups today. "I think that young people today feel as if they can make a difference. We're in a position where society takes us seriously," says Zoher Ghogawala '87, president of the Cynthia Stanton Memorial Cancer Council...
...Polite and businesslike" was the way White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater described last week's meeting between British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock and President Ronald Reagan. "Cool tending toward frosty" might have been more apt. The President criticized Labor's call for British nuclear disarmament, saying it not only hurt NATO but "undercut our negotiating position at Geneva...