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Schiess's decision to accuse her bishop of sex discrimination through secular channels is likely to do the women's cause little good within the church, and it could well create a backlash. Many delegates to next year's convention, like St. Paul in / Corinthians 6:1, may take a dim view of filing a suit against a Christian "brother...
...exact role of the Communists in the two incidents is unclear. Last week António Dias Lourenço, editor of the Communist newspaper Avante, denied that the party was behind the República takeover. But there are already signs of a backlash against the Communists in the heavily Catholic north, where gun battles between conservative and left-wing elements have been reported. In addition, troops were called into one village to restore order after a left-wing politician shot his way out of a mob armed with shotguns, whips and hoes...
...tend to vary in tone according to the group he is addressing them to, but the theme of his annual report has continued throughout the spring, his comments about affirmative action at Harvard are those of a discouraged man who sees the University being swept along in a nationwide backlash against the principles affirmative action was designed to institutionalize...
MANY NASTY THINGS have been written about Michelangelo Antonioni since his L'Avventura grabbed a legion of intellectuals and turned them into cultists in the early '60s--the backlash that follows movie cults is inevitably louder, bitchier and more memorable than the initial shockwave that turns a movie into a classic. For years, these two warning camps have made a lot of noise about Antonioni knowing that moviegoers themselves seldom rely on their own judgment but rather trust the deductions of those who are in a position to release periodic edicts...
Capitalizing on the backlash from Yale's Shockley affair, Schickele managed to obtain permission to present his latest discovery (commissioned by the Harvard Band) at Sanders Theater last weekend. The piece, which he edited--"tastefully," he claims--and retitled Serenoodle for Northerly winds and Percussion, was not originally composed for the concert band. According to Schickele, Bach's original scoring called for "an Awful Lot of wind and Percussion Instruments," a rare combination in the composer's day, but one which the Harvard Band is admirably suited...