Word: gutmanns
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...Washington to George Washington Carver. Public schools have the ability to teach democracy simply by being open to all children, and regarding them--and their backgrounds and religions--as equally worthy. "Nobody claims private schools can't teach tolerance, mutual respect and nondiscrimination," says Princeton political science professor Amy Gutmann. "But in public schools, they are taught as much by the mixing of students as they are by the curriculum...
...embattled Berkowitz related a story of the critical review he published of a Thompson book in The New Republic on Nov. 25, 1996, just around the time the tenure deliberations in the government department began. Interestingly, the book in question, which was co-written with the liberal theorist Amy Gutmann '71 was called Democracy and Disagreement: Why Moral Conflict Cannot Be Avoided in Politics, and What Should be Done About It. The book argues that democratic societies should engage in substantive deliberation over serious moral issues in order to achieve "mutually acceptable" conclusions. Berkowitz deconstructs not just this linguistic dodge...
...regardless of the outcome of those two deliberations, the University community can begin to ask the substantive, moral questions that a deliberative democracy, as Thompson and Gutmann argue, should. We should wonder whether public hearings might not better suit a tenure debate than backroom politicking. Though the case is far from resolved, and we don't know whether there was a liberal-conservative deal at the departmental level, and we don't know whether there was behind-the-scenes manipulation of the ad hoc committee or the President, and we don't know whether Berkowitz was himself critiqued...
...family's Degas may have much in common with hundreds of lost works. Landscape with Smokestacks first came into the family on June 9, 1932, when it was acquired at a Paris auction for 10,000 francs (U.S. dollar equivalent at that time, $740) by Simon's grandfather, Friedrich Gutmann, a German-Jewish banker living in Holland. With the onset of World War II, part of the family collection, which included 10 Old Masters and several other Impressionist canvases, was sent to France for safekeeping, only to be seized there by the Nazis. When Germany invaded the Low Countries, Gutmann...
Searle's lawyers maintain that the Degas was legitimately sold by Friedrich Gutmann, not stolen by the Nazis. They also point out that the canvas has been exhibited over the years at major museums around the country, as well as featured in numerous art books, and that their client was unaware of the painting's disputed provenance when he bought it. Asks his lawyer, Howard Trienans: "At what point is it safe for an honest man to buy a painting from a reputable dealer...