Word: hullabaloo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hullabaloo distresses Boyle, who said she would "seriously question their motives and their dedication to the club, the club they campaigned in so fervently." The fact that Fine and Taylor lost hard-fought battles for HRRC offices last semester does indicate that the HRAC might be a power play on their part. Still, nothing will happen until the Committee on College Life approves the organization's constitution...
Amid all the hullabaloo over sophomore quarterback stars last year (Jay Fiedler of Dartmouth, and Mike Giardi of Harvard) last year, Lazor's name was conspicuously absent, even though the Cornell signalcaller recorded some impressive stats: first in Ivy total offense per game (198.9 yards); school records for completions in a game (31) vs. Brown and most 300-yard passing games...
That is the issue that lies behind the hullabaloo over "multiculturalism" and "political correctness," the attack on the "Eurocentric" curriculum and the rise of the notion that history and literature should be taught not as disciplines but as therapies whose function is to raise minority self-esteem. Group separatism crystallizes the differences, magnifies tensions, intensifies hostilities. Europe -- the unique source of the liberating ideas of democracy, civil liberties and human rights -- is portrayed as the root of all evil, and non-European cultures, their own many crimes deleted, are presented as the means of redemption...
...hullabaloo that occurred this summer made it seem as if racial cross casting had never been done before. But in fact, cross casting isn't anything new. No Chinese actor ever played Charlie Chan...
...nice diversion: a punitive hullabaloo, casting the NEA as the patron, if not of Commies, then of blasphemers, elitists and sickos. The arts grant becomes today's version of the Welfare Queen's Cadillac. And if the NEA is trashed or even dismantled in the process, so much the better: it only shows that the post-Reagan right still has teeth...