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...powerful British. He felt the sting growing up on the gold reef east of Johannesburg, the son of a poor white miner who believed he was exploited by English capitalists. Even after Afrikaners won absolute power in 1948, Rudolph continued to feel inferior. Upon being taunted for his poor grammar as a young policeman, he recalls, "I decided it was the last time I would be treated this way by an English-speaker...
...There was definitely a need for it in the neighborhood, but the department opted to work out of three local grammar schools [instead of a combined youth center] at that point," said Goodwin...
...issue, the the Holocaust ad cloaked its aggressive position by carefully appealing to "free speech" sensibilities--an appeal that often finds its greatest supporters among the journalism community. Such a tactic offers, as Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara E. Johnson noted in yesterday's Boston Globe, "a grammar of reason with a rhetoric of hostility." Peninsula attacked homosexuality and homosexuals, but did so with what its authors termed "charity" and "concern;" thus, the assault was made more powerful by the extent to which it also refused the refutation...
JUST AS THE REASONED grammar of the Holocaust ad, Peninsula and "political correctness" tends to efface individual and personal differences, liberal arguments for multiculturalism have too often emphasized rhetorical strategies that do not translate into substantive reconfigurations of power. As Susan Faludi `81 wrote in The New York Times Magazine this weekend, the writer must "[assert] herself from behind the veil of the printed page." Faludi, a former managing editor of The Crimson and author of Backlash, was calling for public speech that actually touches people and that forces us into the public. As writers, as journalists, such a call...
...building will also contain St.Paul's parish offices and the Boston Archdiocesan Choir school, a grammar school with an emphasis on music, according to Father Richard J. Malone, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Roman Catholic chaplaincy...