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...note with growing concern a propensity of some members of the Harvard community to distort the concept of "rights of the minority" in order to charge discrimination where none exists. The most recent example concerns the reaction to Christmas decorations in House dining halls. Hope Reisman writes to The Crimson that she finds "such decorations offensive and discriminatory." I fail to see the applicability of either term. Ms. Reisman need not feel personally insulted or offended that a sizeable portion of the community wishes to celebrate a particular holiday while she does not. Nor should she feel that...
...rape is "the conscious process by which all men keep all women in a state of fear." But she persuasively argues that all forms of oppression have their origin in the often brutal reality of unequal physical power and that this primal fact of life continues to define and distort relationships between the sexes...
Unfortunately, much of this dialogue is insipid and cliched. Worse, Teichmann's attempts at character development partially distort West's intent. In the stage version, for example, the relationship between Miss Lonelyhearts and his sweetheart Betty--which assumes a far more central role than in the novel--is transformed into a typical 50s romance, while Shrike, Miss Lonelyhearts' misanthropic boss, becomes too intrusively a father figure. Worst of all are Teichmann's omissions. Absent from his script are many of West's most pungent passages; missing too are several key incidents which suggest that Miss Lonelyhearts' real impulse...
...associated with Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute, *and Rainwater, of Columbia University, were cited for their 1940s and 1950s research on the inner structure of the atom. They helped explain oddities in the nucleus' behavior by showing that its myriad components spun and vibrated so as to distort the nucleus into an unexpected ellipsoid, rather than a sphere. These new insights helped set the stage for many of the important advances in particle physics during the past two decades of experimentation...
...difference that a study by the Congressional Budget Office refutes Ford's assumption that New York has been more profligate than other major cities. In the rest of the country, the city's image as a den of liberals, Jews and blacks makes it easier for Ford to distort the issue and deny New York the time it needs to avoid default. Ironically, Ford's plan may ultimately backfire, when as a result of New York's default even Grand Rapids, Michigan, finds itself in trouble. But that will be small comfort to residents of either city...