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While few of Hart's supporters are familiar with his substantive positions in detail, a surprisingly large number mention his approach to the nation's defense as one thing that attracted them. Says Steven Nesich, 30, a marketing consultant from Seattle: "The Reaganites have a knee-jerk reaction to defense: 'Build it.' The liberals have a knee-jerk reaction: 'Don't build it.' Hart sees a leaner, tougher defense that would cost us far less and be more effective...
...Dublin paper once decided that he was the "bard of the bogs." Robert Lowell took the high road, designating him the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Seamus Heaney (pronounced Hay-knee) finds very little comfort in either encomium. "The first annoys me," he grumbles. "The second makes me uncomfortable...
...TERM can be abused. What is important is not the term, but the situation within which it is expressed. The listener bears as much civic responsibility as the speaker whenever a potentially offensive word or phrase is uttered; knee-jerk reactions can foster unnecessary hostility on occasions when no disparagement was intended...
...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...