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...Right now, in general, people who love music but aren't professionals are particularly interested in the Baroque period, and that's first and foremost Bach," Marvin added...
...opinions, he is correct about the Black racist intellectual anti-Semitism of the HRBSA [Harvard Radcliffe Black Students Association]. They have engaged in this sort of behavior since at least 1978 when they invited the Libyan Minister of Justice to give a talk. Since Libyan is one of the foremost proponents of traditional and modern Islamic barbarism, which requires the degradation and humiliation of non-Muslim, inviting such a person is a moral outrage...
West is rarely ranked with the foremost English novelists of this century: Lawrence, Forster, Woolf. For one thing, she turned her pen to too many tasks outside the realm of fiction; for another, she remained true to tradition in an age that gloried in breaking the molds. Rose Aubrey notes: "I am writing all this down in full knowledge that it will not now seem important, for the reason that that is just what marks off that past from our present. Everything was then of importance." This qualified apology sounds like a reply to her friend and rival Virginia Woolf...
...many a reader, Mark Twain is the foremost American novelist and his masterwork is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This year, the book's centenary, has brought several Huck Finn stage productions. It has also brought a renewed outcry from some who want the novel barred from school libraries. The book is racist, say these critics, who note that it repeatedly uses the word nigger and that it distresses young black students. Last week defenders of Huck as a satire of racism were bolstered by news that Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens, had recorded his views of black and white...
...first time in six years. Radcliffe earlier this month sold $3 million worth of bonds to finance the relocation of one of the country's foremost women's scholarship programs...