Word: godly
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...LeBoutillier has to write about Harvard as a liberal/radical enclave, he could at least do it with virulence (a la Joe McCarthy's speech about "the Kremlin on the Charles") or with wit and style (a la William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale). Instead, he loads us down with sixth--grade platitudes and an embarassing series of distortions...
LeBoutillier's Harvard is a frightful place, inhabited by the likes of --God forbid--Charles Warren Professor of History Frank Freidel, that "liberal" who dared to interject a personal opinion about welfare into a lecture on FDR. The author is outraged. He is also surrounded. His sophomore history tutor, he says, is a Marxist. The tutor is quoted as uttering such realistic phrases as: "Jesus, how heavy, how heavy, how incredibly relevant and heavy," and, better tailored to LeBoutillier's needs: "America the Beautiful my ass. It should be America the home of fascism...
...undoubtedly looking forward to spending the rest of the weekend glued to your TV set watching the World Series and waiting to see the fans in Yankee Stadium rip up half the outfield, infield, and pitcher's mound. Or perhaps you're waiting to see Steve Garvey modestly praise God and Country as he courteously accepts accolades for the Dodgers' triumph...
Lecture: June Goodfield, adjunct professor at the Rockefeller University and Cornell Medical Center, author of "Playing God: Genetic Engineering and the Manipulation of Life," on "Science and the Mosaic of our Culture." 277 Science Center...
...system to reward companies that exceed them and penalize firms that "fail. Exasperated by the managers and regulgators who think that they can make sweeping decisions from a distant pinnacle he likes to say, "Santayana defined fanatics as those people who know what they are doing is what God would be doing if he only had all the facts...