Word: fadiman
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...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...
Others said that Muldoon and Fadiman represented the academic environment that Harvard provides its students...