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...Crimson story (April 9, 1981) on discrimination against women in the awarding of fellowships is misleading insofar as it purports to describe the behavior of the Massachusetts Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee...
POLITICS AND RHETORIC live in symbiotic bliss. Insofar as the emotive phrase sways the voter's heart more than the substantive argument, good speechmakers rank among the nation's most valuable political commodities. As the most updated guide to the ultra-conservative's galaxy, The New Right is the wor'd according to a master of the discipline. Direct-mail magnate Richard Viguerie has diversified and converted his seductive brand of extremist politics into pulp form. The New Right is tailored to become the bible of the conservative movement...
...addition, bringing increased numbers of minority scholars here would "be a very positive step insofar as there are people in some departments who are ignorant of the presence of Black scholars of real quality--their presence would serve to belie that," Huggins added...
Fear of Flying was not a good novel insofar as it told us something we already knew in a way that exaggerated the unimportant, and thereby obscured some of the more significant aspects of the feminist movement. But at least it was short, the smut was relatively all-American, and it exuded a certain honesty about the shortcomings and strengths of the average modern woman. Fanny--a novel that pretends to relate the true biography of John Cleland's Fanny Hill but doesn't begin to compare with that work--refuses to preserve even the integrity of its own purpose...
Your article on herpes simplex [July 28], while accurate insofar as the clinical experience of the disease is concerned, presented an overly pessimistic portrayal of its human dimensions. Certainly having herpes is annoying and at times inconvenient; but to suggest that incessant guilt, shame, depression and suicidal feelings are anything more than exceptions -rare exceptions-is to emphasize the exceptions at the expense of the rule...