Word: jerks
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...Mark Lagon of the Harvard Republican club argues that the tradition has broken down. He portray's a "left wing monopoly of political thought and discussion" that frustrates "true political discussion and interplay of ideas." Such monopoly makes a mochery of academic freedom, forcing the student to "regurgitate know-jerk radicalism to succeed in exams." To remedy such abuses, Mr. Lagon recommends that professors adopt a "balanced" approach in their teaching. Our response is two-fold; we find to evidence of a left wing monopoly at Harvard, nor can we find in the call for "balance" anything more than...
...what way do these two individuals constitute a "monopoly"? If Mr. Lagon really has others in mind, surely any of them would have been a better example than Prof. Hoffmann. Any of the horde who force students to regurgitate knee-jerk radicalism" would do--unless Mr. Lagon is unable to find any. His accusations clearly make a mockery of themselves, or would, were it not for their overcomes. Faced with Mr. Lagon's tactics, how can one not call to mind Sen. Joe McCarthy's "discovery" of massive. Communist infiltration of the Departments of State and the Army...
...letter attempts to discredit Harvard Faculty through invective and innuendo ("...force students to regurgitate knee-jerk radicalism"), and meaningless Double-speak ("Harvard...must also be made a home of open discussion instead of an oasis of utopian radicalism) without providing substantive evidence in support of the allegations...
Your article "Making Hostility a Media Event" [Aug. 29] insinuates that Der Spiegel has depicted the U.S. "as a nation of knee-jerk militarists and simultaneously has managed to find the Soviets flexible and reasonable." To support this vague assertion, you quote Der Spiegel on Yuri Andropov: "He has clearly engaged himself for peace." This quote, which is taken from Der Spiegel's published, abridged version of Andropov, a book by Russian Author and Dissident Zhores Medvedev, who lives in London, presupposes an editorial opinion of our magazine. The complete quote reads: "Signals that he [Andropov] has given...
...result of this disappointing encounter. I reasoned that there are two types of women who call themselves feminists: the ecumenical type, who believes in freedom of expression and the right of each woman to find dignity and fulfillment in whatever path she chooses: and the more prevalent knee-jerk feminist who is quick to condemn any woman who looks and lives differently from herself, and who is unwilling to make an effort to recognize the person behind the makeup and hairdo. This type of feminist has a close-minded and superficial approach which can border at times on censorship...