Word: fadiman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oration that followed, "Procrustes and the Culture Wars," Fadiman urged seniors "not to take sides in the culture wars...a peculiar development which takes culture and tries to squish it down to one line, stretching from right to left...
...Fadiman likened the culture wars--which ask individuals to define themselves in black and white terms--to Procrustes, a figure in Greek mythology...
...Fadiman said that Procrustes's bed is a good metaphor for the culture wars because people nowadays are expected to choose one of two ideologies...
...Fadiman said that people who choose to identify themselves as either liberal or conservative, without the chance for overlap, end up limiting themselves...
...sign up to toe the party line, and you suddenly find you've lost the ability to judge things on a case by case basis," said Fadiman, who is the editor-designate of The American Scholar, a journal published by the National Phi Beta Kappa Society...