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...nearing his 80th birthday, Bellow remains America's most distinguished living writer, thickly bronzed by literary honors that include a Nobel Prize. But public monuments attract pigeons, in Bellow's case the flock of critics and political correctionists who dismiss his traditional humanism, learning and individuality as elitist or worse. Liberals and leftists have long attacked him as an insensitive conservative. Feminist discontent about the women in his fiction has been duly registered. More recently, Brent Staples, an editorial writer for the New York Times, objected in a memoir to the portrayal of a black man in Mr. Sammler...
...Bowdren is entitled to dismiss Take Back the Night as nothing more than a "militant feminist yahoo festival." However, in publishing this profoundly prejudicial column on the day of the rally without a counter-balancing opinion, The Crimson did a disservice to is readership...
...When [the police] realized [their mistake],they offered to dismiss, but I wanted a notguilty," Silverglate says...
Casual observers are quick to dismiss Vladimir Zhirinovsky as a fanatic whose visions of becoming Russia's dictator are pipe dreams. Sixty years ago, the same was said of Hitler. Historian Robert Waite writes. "The story of Hitler's rise to power is the story of his underestimation." Like those who once dismissed Hitler as a fringe lunatic, those who now scoff at Zhirnovsky are taking a dangerous gamble...
...also wonder why, as a civil libertarian, Prof. Dershowitz would so eagerly dismiss the courts as an aggrieved student's last line of defense against powerful university administrators. Joshua A. Gerstein '91 The writer, a television news producer in Washington, D.C., is a former Senior Editor of The Crimson...