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...nation that commonly confers celebrity on its discordant intellectuals. Yet in the past eight months, several feisty scholars have pounded academe, as well as society in general, and seen their books turn into unlikely best sellers. University of Chicago Professor Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind attacked U.S. universities for dereliction of their duty to educate. The University of Virginia's E.D. Hirsch Jr. in Cultural Literacy blasted U.S. schools for failing to teach Western culture. Latest to join the list of academic provocateurs: Russell Jacoby, a former visiting scholar at the University of California...
...Pakistani-born accountant, and his American photographer client Anna (Wendy Gazelle); Rosie (Frances Barber), Sammy's wife, a "downwardly mobile" English social worker, and her beau of the evening Danny (Roland Gift), a young black; and Rafi (Shashi Kapoor), Sammy's father, and his old flame Alice (Claire Bloom), a romantic Englishwoman. Is that all clear? No? Don't worry; these lives are not meant to be sorted out. Like real relationships, they are messy, incendiary, lingering past the pleasure point. Kureishi's women can be doctrinaire or maternal or game for a good time; his men, the "unfair...
Okin challenged University of Chicago Philosophy Professor Allan Bloom, who argues in his best-selling book, "The Closing of the American Mind," that "the unjust family is natural...
...world of Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaids Tale" [which depicts the subjugation of women in a fundamentalist-governed United States] might well be the logical conclusion of Bloom's world," Okin said...
Okin said that Bloom's attitudes also provide philosophical justification for the gender-separated family, where women must provide the majority of domestic work. Such an arrangement, Okin said, "makes women vulnerable...