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...Murray is not so benign; he is a crafty, venal man. He has been able to cling to some scientific legitimacy by downplaying many of the false assumptions in his work, emphasizing its factual elements, and ignoring substantive scientific rebuke. For example, in his Institute of Politics speech, Murray largely avoided the subject of race, and did not answer the stinging criticism of Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould. He has claimed that The Bell Curve is not about race, but Adolf Hitler could have made that argument about Mein Kampf. Major portions of the book deal with race...
Also in this period, namely in 1958, Taylor recorded an album with tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. It is difficult to find a more bizarre record anywhere. With Coltrane struggling mightily to cling to his own advanced harmonic world against Taylor's barrage of atonal clusters, jarring rhythmic patterns, and jackhammer assaults on the piano, a profound tug-of-war between two musical camps ensues. Nobody wins, and the tension produced is exhausting both for the musicians and listeners. Still, this has to be one of the most interesting recordings of American music ever made. It has the curiosity value that...
...best, a dubious line of reasoning, considering that final clubs' traditions and activities seem to consist mainly of drinking cheap beer and making snide remarks about nonmembers, both of which women are as fully capable of doing as men. The real question is, if final club members choose to cling to their beliefs, do women have a moral imperative to stop them...
...weaves. Take Where Time Stands Still, which will get no radio play but sounds like a piano-bar classic about the haven of love. Years from now, some chanteuse with wise eyes and a whiskey voice will be singing that "Memory plays tricks on us,/ The more we cling, the less we trust,/ And the less we trust the more we hurt,/ And as time goes by it just gets worse." Then the guy at the end of the bar will nod in assent and wonder why they don't write feelings like that any more...
...talks despite repeated attempts, including a recent attack on civilians in downtown Jerusalem. The recent kidnapping is Hamas' attempt to carry out the ultimate attack which will provoke Israel. Although it was initially successful in attaining its two goals, Hamas failed and will continue to fail. Hamas seems to cling desperately to the pitiful idea that terror is an effective political tool. They seem to still uphold the archaic notion that Israelis can be terrorized out of Israel...