Word: baron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bukovina. Father was sexually unfaithful to her and volcanic in temper; an anti-Semite who despised Nazis as Untermenschen; a watercolorist, photographer and architectural historian whose diversions included dragging a dead wild boar through the hall and up the stairs in the course of a soiree. Above all, Baron von Rezzori was an obsessive hunter, whose profound and almost mystical relation with the woods and the etiquette of the chase would mark his son for life. Finally there were the beloved Other, his sister, dead at 21, and the Pomeranian governess, "Bunchy," who presided over the boy's home education...
...environment of a campus has to be evenfreer with respect to speech than a streetcorner," Baron said. "We must remember thatuniversities provide golden opportunities fordealing with problems of racism or sexism...
...must remember that the person who'sadministering these codes is not aphilosopher-king," Baron said. "I do want toprotect people from being hurt, but not at thecost of lying to ourselves...
...Baron argued that the most effective way torespond to offensive remarks is to speak outpublicly against them...
...answer to speech that we hate is morespeech," Baron said...