Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Confidentiality of test results particularly concerned one critic of mandatory testing. "We need a stated purpose for the testing. What is going to been done with the results?" James Curran asked...
South African novelist Alan Paton, an outspoken liberal critic of apartheid, once declared: "I am full of joy to realize that I never had anything to do with any divestment campaign." Paton, unlike those who protest today, knows that the divestiture movement rests more on moral outrage than on a sober evaluation of South African realities. Because American disinvestment can so easily harm those whom it ought to help, and because Harvard's financial involvement with repressive regimes hardly begins and ends with South Africa, blanket divestiture would represent the first step into an ethical minefield...
...there always something futile, pathetic, uncomfortably personal about the post-script? Displaying its ostensible, self-conscious triviality like an impostor's fake medals, it challenges us to criticize: "Today only the critic executes the work (pun intended)." Yes, but who sentenced it to death...
...tribute to literary critic Gerard Genette--"Return of the Poetician"--and in random reflections on culture, language and history, Barthes is inimitable in the clarity of his observation, in the music of his language that is like "the noise of what, functioning to perfection, has no noise...happy machines which rustle...." It stammers, it shimmers--his writing does whatever he desires...
...move is certain to please Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who has been an outspoken critic of the revolutionary approach. But it does not answer other concerns of the military, which doubts the wisdom of Aquino's well- publicized scheme to declare a six-month cease-fire with the Communist insurgents. Indeed, late last week Enrile set back Aquino's plans when he ordered troops to hunt down the insurgents who killed a town mayor and 15 others in the northern province of Cagayan. Declared Enrile: "We cannot allow innocent civilians and our soldiers to be butchered...