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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...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Exercises Honor Phi Beta Kappa Seniors | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Exercises Honor Phi Beta Kappa Seniors | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

...Fadiman said that people who choose to identify themselves as either liberal or conservative, without the chance for overlap, end up limiting themselves...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Exercises Honor Phi Beta Kappa Seniors | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Exercises Honor Phi Beta Kappa Seniors | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

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

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Exercises Honor Phi Beta Kappa Seniors | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

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