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...latter charge, Genovese would proudly plead guilty. An avowed enemy of p.c. conformity, he says "the situation on the campuses is beneath contempt." Many of the unrepentant leftists he wants to come clean are either tolerant of or else advocates for a "new version of totalitarianism" in academe that seeks to suppress all views other than their own. In Dissent Genovese writes, "We of the left may claim for ourselves no rights that we are not prepared to grant others...
...group that enjoyed all the educational and economic advantage for decades. "The R.P.F. ideology is self-serving, designed for Western ears," says Alex DeWaal, co-director of Africa Rights in London. "Playing down ethnicity promotes the interests of a relatively wealthy and well-educated minority and hides the enduring contempt many Tutsi commanders feel for the Hutu...
...should always look back on our own past," he said, "with a sort of tender contempt." The past echoed in Potter's inner ear like an accordion rendition of Peg o' My Heart: trite, tinny, extraordinarily potent. But as his days dwindled, he attended, rapturously, to the present. "I'm almost serene," he said to Bragg. "I can celebrate life. Below my window there's an apple tree in blossom. It's white. And looking at it -- instead of saying, 'Oh, that's a nice blossom' -- now, looking at it through the window, I see the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom...
...What I don't understand about the press in general is a kind of contempt for the facts," she says. "To propagate the myth of the diva is so simplistic. It's a very simplistic way to look at people. The power of the printed word is black and white, but people are many shades of gray. They can't quite understand how I could be a so-called powerful woman and yet be frightened, let's say. It's like they don't go together. It's too complex...
Bellow responded that a journalist had misunderstood that particular "piercing question" and noted that neither the Bulgarians nor the Americans have a Proust. Then he made the ornery outburst: "My critics, many of whom could not locate Papua New Guinea on the map, want to convict me of contempt for multiculturalism and defamation of the Third World. I am an elderly white male -- a Jew to boot. Ideal for their purposes...