Word: dreyfusism
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David Dressler, associate professor of Biochemistry, last week received one of the 15 Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards annually presented to young professors of chemistry, biochemistry and related fields...
...from one country and one historical period to another, Sennett fails to develop any historical continuity for his argument. The 18th century world of Samuel Johnson preparing speeches to recite to his friends becomes that of Richard Nixon assuring the American public he is a good man with only Dreyfus, unjustly accused of a public crime for private reasons, in between. Through this method of historical "postholing," Sennett presents only the finished products--the public personality at one end of the continuum and the private at the other--but none of their overlap. The upshot is that these two "separate...
...hall where Paganini made his violin performances more riveting than the music itself, to the barricades of 1848 where Lamartine made his frequent appearances before the workers more inspiring than his policies, and to the courtroom where Zola in J'Accuse made the matter of personal honor in the Dreyfus Case a more important question than anyone's actual guilt...
...Communist underground in the 1930s. Hiss vigorously denied the accusations, but after two trials on perjury charges he was convicted and sent to prison. Freed after some 44 months in Lewisburg federal prison, Hiss continued to plead his innocence. To this day, he has remained for some an American Dreyfus, persecuted by the far right for the crime of being a liberal Democrat, his case a disturbing prelude to McCarthyism. To others, the facts call for a different interpretation: Hiss is a modern day Benedict Arnold...
...Pink Panther Strikes Again opens we find poor Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) recovering very nicely. Indeed, on this very day he is about to be released from the sanitarium. Alas for his hopes, but good for the movie, Clouseau has picked this moment to make a courtesy call on his old colleague. This results in repeated dunkings in a lake for poor Lom, a suspicion on the part of passers-by that he may be a homosexual-and, finally, total relapse...