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...some truly controversial and heart-felt subject, for example a Holocaust paper in a course on genocide, or b) an incredibly large number of people in the course, like Ec 10 or Alan Brinkley's "The American Century." When both factors are present, the potential for real intellectual fervor exists, insofar as it can ever exist in 1980s Harvard. That's why the Moral Reasoning 22 "Justice" paper, due from 800-plus erstwhile Core-hounds last Monday, merits close scrutiny...
...situation was brought into fresh focus last month when the New England Journal of Medicine reported significant falloffs in minority medical-school attendance since the civil rights fervor of a decade ago. In 1974 minority enrollment peaked at 10%, with blacks hitting a high of 7.5%. By 1983 minorities had slipped to 9.7%, blacks to 6.8%. A similar situation exists in some law schools...
...Times recently took away a twice-a-week column by its Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter Sydney Schanberg, who wrote passionately against real estate speculators and presumably displeased the publisher. Schanberg subsequently resigned. The editorials in most papers these days discuss the issues with the evenhandedness of a sociologist and the fervor of an accountant. They aim to inform and perhaps to persuade but not to dictate. The only outrageously opinionated fellow left is the cartoonist, no longer confined to illustrating the boss's prejudices and free to tweak Reagan or ridicule Tip O'Neill. In the past presidential election several newspapers...
...letter continues: "Under the circumstances, your letter displays a degree of moral arrogance that is unusual even by the unfortunate standards prevailing in the academic profession ... One further thought: rather than spending your time lecturing other institutions, why not dedicate yourself with equal fervor to the avoidance of those very problems at your universities?" Rosovsky could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...more persuasive in NBC's Hell Town, in which Robert Blake plays a convict-turned-priest in a ghetto neighborhood of East Los Angeles. Like Michael Landon's Highway to Heaven, which it will follow on Wednesday nights, the program is unabashedly upbeat and sentimental. Nevertheless, Blake's righteous fervor and the campy, 1950's-style opening credits (the title is actually filled with flames) give the show some tabloid...