Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what of the way the book treats men, and affects our notion of them? Insofar as Ellis has deliberately created a monstrous deformity, it is nonetheless striking that the monster is male, and preys mostly on women; and insofar as he intends a closer identification with his creation, the author himself is implicated in the guilt. In either case, the culprit is a male, and the novel is unlikely to endear the unfairer sex to a nation that is already all too conscious of the harm...
...THERE WAS SOMETHING deeply moving and deeply stirring to every American in the creation of the new State of Israel," President Harry S Truman recalled a decade after his administration recognized the the new country in 1948. "Here was a country founded on the love of human freedom, just as our own country was based on the ideal of freedom. Here was a country designed to be a haven for the oppressed and persecuted of the earth, just as our own country had been...
Although the LCR could fulfill many--if not all--of the functions of the proposed Women's Center, students continue to demand the immediate creation of a separate multi-room facility located nearer to Harvard Yard. And Radcliffe deans continue to ignore the importance of student involvement with a patronising "we know what's best for you" attitude toward both the LCR and the question of a Women's Center. Both groups are going to have to compromise if either of them wants to achieve anything...
...STANDS right now, students willing to make this kind of compromise are met by a patronising Radcliffe administration unwilling to meet them halfway. Since the creation of the LCR, it has been run by administrative fiat, with absolute resistance to giving students a part in the actual running of the room...
Furst's perfect-pitch re-creation begins with a fatally flawed protagonist: Andre Szara, 40, Pravda reporter in Europe and occasional Soviet spy, whose life goals have been reduced to a desire to outlast Stalin's purges. As the novel opens in 1937, Szara, a Russified Polish Jew, is caught in the midst of a blood feud in the Soviet secret services between his NKVD friends, mostly Jewish intellectuals, and Stalin's Georgian thugs. The fear that dominates Szara's nomadic life is palpable: a typically chilling passage is about his return to Russia aboard a Soviet freighter with...