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...Harvard student exposed to enlightened modes of thought through the Core Curriculum, I know it is unfair to condemn an entire holiday on the basis of 20 consecutive years of humiliation. So I spent the last several hours researching the prehistory of Valentine's Day in an effort to justify my prior conclusions...
...general, and in the University in particular, we should carefully guard the distinction between that which we censure, or morally condemn, and that which we censor, or prohibit. Offensive speech deserves moral condemnation and vigorous rebuttal from the University community. Indeed, any liberal community has a responsiblity to condemn and rebut offensive speech. Standards of acceptability must exist, but they need not and should not be set by the University administration. What is important is not that purveyors of offensive speech be disciplined, but that they be loudly and publicly condemned by the community...
...safe and loving care"; where the environment is clean, equal opportunity abounds, the disabled are part of the mainstream, the homeless "get the help they need," everyone "has a roof over his head," every child "makes the grade," the streets and schools are "drug-free," we all "confront and condemn racism and bigotry," and "no American is forgotten...
...came to pick nits and fights. Said an audience member: "I'd just like to know what Michael Moore's going to do with all his money, now that he made Flint look bad." But many were fans. "I'm tired of those Hollywood fern-bar types trying to condemn Mike," one man declared. "Good luck, Mike...
Pynchon's devotion to electronic allusions has been criticized before, and Vineland will no doubt increase the number of protests. It is, admittedly, disquieting to find a major author drawing cultural sustenance from The Brady Bunch and I Love Lucy instead of The Odyssey and the Bible. But to condemn Pynchon for this strategy is to confuse the author with his characters. He is a gifted man with anti-elitist sympathies. Like some fairly big names in innovative fiction, including Flaubert, Joyce and Faulkner, Pynchon writes about people who would not be able to read the books in which they...