Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fortinbras, Daniel Jenkins enters talking in the clipped modern diction of a yuppie warrior -- contemptuous of doubt, confident of the power of confidence itself. Dumb luck makes him an epic hero. Every country his armies confront submits without battle. Then comes disaster just as abrupt and irrational: his soldiers all march into the Indus River and drown. The man of action, it turns out, is as storm tossed on the seas of fate as any man of thought -- and far less equipped to handle the swings of fortune. Any parallels to George Bush and the gulf war are obviously intentional...
...instead to the all- black law school at Howard University, which in the 1930s was being transformed under vice-dean Charles H. Houston into a training ground for lawyers who would challenge segregation in the courts. Houston became Marshall's mentor, firing the determination of the younger man to confront segregation head on. After graduation Marshall worked as a lawyer for the Baltimore branch of the NAACP. One of his first major cases forced the integration of the same University of Maryland law school he had been unable to attend...
Moderates fret that Fahd will once again back down rather than confront the conservatives. "He will never fight them," says a Saudi intellectual. But failure to institute reforms now will only serve to encourage the extremists. Fahd's father, King Abdul Aziz, founder of the kingdom, did not hesitate to sever his alliance with the puritanical Wahhabi warriors when they defied his rule. As the struggle over Saudi Arabia's future intensifies, Fahd could do worse than recall his father's choice when challenged by his kingdom's zealots...
...Irving Howe once called a certain type of faculty member a "gorilla with tenure." You can confront the arguments for political correctness on campus, but the struggle has to be constant. There will always be people who try to enforce a lazy intellectual position. The best antidote would be to expose the holders of those views to what a real dictatorship is like and what happens to people when a set of ideas is enforced...
Dershowitz reserves some of his bitterest venom for Jews who fail to join him in his crusade to confront. Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky? A "house Jew." Ditto for Rabbi Ben Zion Gold of Harvard Hillel. Anyone who fails to exhibit sufficient chutzpah (Dershowitz determines how much that is) is falling into the same rut that led to discrimination, pogroms and Auschwitz...