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...popular causes, such as Take Back the Night.The UC can do nothing to protest against the College when it makes dubious decisions like the no-alcohol policy at this year’s Harvard-Yale tailgate, or the recent tax on donations to student groups. Meanwhile, it applauds post factum bold steps taken by the University, such as the financial aid initiative or the curricular review.In other words, the UC is just a slothful bystander. It merely turns its head in the direction of the student-life parade, with a grin or a frown according to the occasion...
There is no more difficult political role than that of a conservative from the baby-boom generation. Attitudes and behavior that were commonplace in the late 1960s -- about drugs, sex, military service -- are now viewed with post- factum moralism through the prism of two decades of cultural revisionism. By 1969 millions of American men of draft age would have gone to great lengths to avoid combat in the most unpopular war in the nation's history. Is an entire generation of draft avoiders, who stayed within the law, barred from high political office? Or is there a special standard...
...outrageous, how iniquitous that tire-girdled Angora goat looked in 1959! What perversity seemed to lurk behind Rauschenberg's gesture of erasing a drawing by Willem de Kooning and exhibiting the sheet! How dandyist an affront to spontaneous sincerity, the idea of painting two abstract expressionist canvases, Factum I and Factum II, almost identical down to the last drip...
...instantia, sunt Bossi similes nostris in Via Muri? Ubi "annuli mercatorii," et "anguli porcini," similes Chicagensibus? Vos, infortcuati juvenes, lugelis sub pondere Systemae Feudalis, et AEdificii Dominorum - quamvis probibaliter non noscitis factum. Aqmla Americani, superba volucris, non potest digestare tales res ulla...
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