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Despite the retirement of Fowler-Finn supporter Nancy Walser, her protege, Tauber, won a seat. And though Harding, a critic of the superintendent, lost, McGovern, a fellow critic...
...father of two boys who attend the Baldwin School in Agassiz, Kelley has staked out a role as a cheerleader for public education and a critic of the district’s administration...
...Even so, Kelley has endorsed freshman School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80, the superintendent’s strongest critic on the committee. She was the only member to meet him to hear his concerns about the school district’s budget, he notes...
...ruling cliché in writing about crime bosses - "the gangster as tragic hero" - was coined in 1948 by Robert Warshow, an extremely intelligent cultural critic, whose premature passing in 1955 robbed us of an invaluable voice. Warshow held that the classic movie mobsters (Little Caesar, The Public Enemy) were, in their essence, classic Americans forced by their status as the sons of immigrants to seek success and status outside the law, even though their style and motives were not so very different from the robber barons who found their riches in more respectable industries. The difference between the gangsters...
Then, as now, many Christians saw biblical beliefs as the foundation for law and liberty. "If our religion were gone, our state of society would perish with it," declared Jefferson's chief evangelical critic, Yale president Timothy Dwight. The Jeffersonians bit back. "Now I don't know that John Adams is a hypocrite, or Jefferson a Deist," one wrote, "yet supposing they are, I am of the opinion the last ought to be preferred to the first [because] a secret enemy is worse than an open and avowed...