Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are reasons to believe that identity politics should be suffering the same fate as political correctness. Just this past month, a group of students at Syracuse University unsuccessfully called for the national boycott of Denny's, the fast-food restaurant. They claim that they were mistreated a year ago for being Asian. The local authorities disagree. There does not seem to be any evidence, and no one, except some federal officials, seem to care...
...York's City College to the present. In the movie, Kristol says of his youth, "Like most people with some political consciousness in the '30s, I thought the world was coming to an end." So they fought; they yelled on street corners, they rallied, they discussed the fate of their turbulent world in which Stalin was the successor of the Bolshevik revolution, Hitler was threatening to conquer Europe in a fit of anti-Semitic and racist rage and poverty in America was pervasive...
There is also an inexplicable understanding with others who have a shared fate--a kinship of anonymity and functionality with which people with e-mail addresses like granade@fas and rawlins@fas will never identity...
Then, after years of training and outstanding performance enough to surpass any Olympic hopeful, the Day of Judgment arrives. The near-divine tribunal convenes, its members undisclosed, to deliberate upon your fate. (Here's where we imagine the doors of the Court of Star Chamber slamming shut.) Later, without any revelation of who these secret judges are, the announcement is made that you have been deemed unworthy. You are relocated to Kansas. Meanwhile, perhaps, another up-and-coming Man in Black has already been chosen for promotion in your place--someone just like you, except he's from Kansas...
...fate has forever been shaped between the hands of reason and spirit, now in collaboration, again in conflict. Now reason and spirit meet on final ground. If either or anything is to survive, they must find a way to create an indissoluble partnership...