Word: flynt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sounds like a bad pun, but it’s 8 p.m. and Larry Flynt is running late. The publisher of Hustler magazine and Democratic candidate in the California gubernatorial recall was supposed to arrive at Sanders Theatre between 7:30 and 8 this Monday for his speech on the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) College Freedom Tour, but all his publicist knows is that he’s on his way. Standing outside Sanders on a brisk, blowy night, an ACLU rep is chatting with a pair of Harvard police officers about the belated guest...
...least when Larry Flynt comes to speak at Harvard, he does so under the banner of pop culture, not academia. Ms. Adams is not a credible academic and her mere appearance at Harvard denigrates the university. At least in this sense, it is pleasing to see that Ms. Adams is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and not of one of Harvard’s. Even if the Quincy co-master has erred in giving Ms. Adams’ an intellectual pedestal to speak, at least we are spared the embarrassment of having produced a graduate capable of such drivel...
...Flynt nevertheless closed his speech to enthusiastic applause...
...Those of us who were involved in reaching out to other students were unhappy with Larry Flynt as a speaker. He doesn’t represent a voice of freedom,” said Aaron K. Tanaka...
...don’t think there’s any problem with [Flynt] coming here and speaking. But I’m not going to thank him for who he is,” she said...