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...Sensibility" browses the back room of the canon to find what was really on early modern minds. Some may say the basics never change--man, woman, etc.--but "Sex and Sensibility" calls out a host of whores, hermaphrodites, and pregnant nuns to bring 18th-century gender perplexity out of the funky armoire...
...proper-thinking modernist architect in the mid-1950s would have given London's Bankside Power Station much chance of making it into the canon of modern architecture. An enormous, darkly lowering hulk of brick, it dominated the south bank of the Thames like a factory, which in fact it was. But more valuable buildings have been lost to economic boom and proactive aesthetics than were ever ruined by decay and indifference. Nobody tore down the Bankside Power Station because none could agree on a use for its site. It just lay there, an unloved, comatose and grimy princess, waiting...
...while it is true that most of my coursework has been in the realm of political thought, that description of my collegiate experience is also deficient in its own way. I have studied the great works of the Western Canon, but when I recall my college education, it is not Plato or Locke or Nietzsche that comes to mind--it is the newsroom of The Harvard Crimson. My diploma may read "social studies," but my schooling has been in the craft of journalism...
...what about the squirming adults who have been there, done that since their own childhood? They may have trouble sitting still through the latest addition to the Disney canon. It is called Dinosaur and recounts the tale of an iguanodon named Aladar (voiced by D.B. Sweeney), who grows up, scaly but lovable, in the Cretaceous period, some 65 million years...
...brother to every other scout, no matter to what class, color or creed the other may belong. That is the essence and beauty of scouting. I'm not gay, but I see it as abundantly clear that antipathy to bigotry of any kind is implicit in the above canon. Whoever injected the phrase "morally straight" into the American version cannot possibly hold to an ethic of Christian charity. In 46 years of teaching, I have put my arms around many students of both sexes who needed me, and I shall continue to do so. Academic subjects are what we teach...