Word: drummondã
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...Charles Drummond??s ’09 thesis is that non-politicians should stay out of politics. While I generally agree that when you purchase a service, that service should come without extra ads, saying that people of some professions should not meddle in public affairs which concern them is repressive and reminiscent of Plato’s Kallipolis. Given the nature of politics—the common good—a person famous for something is entitled to use that fame to improve the world. Much is made of partisanship and its evils, but the truth...
...editors: Charles Drummond??s column “Primetime Segregation” (Sept. 27) troubled me deeply. Although he is completely correct about the ludicrousness of the new “Survivor: Cook Islands” television show, I feel it was in horrible taste for him to nonchalantly compare an amped-up version of the show to the South. Articles such as this that paint the South as continuing to be a bastion for intolerance and racism in The Crimson make life significantly more difficult for Southerners on campus. How many times have you been asked...
...writing to second Charles Drummond??s tolerant perspective on the controversy surrounding sophomore novelist Kaavya Viswanathan (“Girl Interrupted,” comment, Apr. 26). If a few plot points and a borrowed phrase every 10 pages constitute “literary identity theft”, as Tuesday’s statement from Random House alleges, few authors will escape whipping. With Chaucer and Boccaccio, Shakespeare and Holinshead, Robert Johnson and Skip James, why not Viswanathan and McCafferty? Any literary omelet worth its salt is likely to contain a few borrowed eggs...
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