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...with Professor Cole was a carefully orchestrated attack on affirmative action at Dartmouth. The Review claimed that affirmative action denigrates the value of a Dartmouth diploma, and that it is tantamount to racism. But this argument denies the existence of institutionally imposed barriers to minority achievement. It plays on latent racist sentiment, and it displays a profound insensitivity to the problems of minorities...
...fact that, if properly approached, the Quad Ice Project is a thing of lyrical and exotic beauty. For this to become readily apparent to the uninitiated requires the willing viewer to assume a more poetic and fantastical frame of mind than is his wont. Tap the vein of poetry latent within us all. Think, not bathroom windows, but towering glaciers. Or, if the bathroom window resemblance remains inescapable, try to overcome its more prosaic implications. These are not ordinary frosted windows; these are the bathroom windows of your dreams, though slightly colder than the discriminating bather might wish...
...Copley produced a masterpiece within his own field comparable to the architecture of Jefferson or to the legal and moral qualities of the Constitution. But by 1800 an answer to the haunting question posed by Michel- Guillaume-Jean de Crevecoeur -- "What then is the American, this new man?" -- was latent in the young Republic's art, and explicit in its architecture...
...traditionally considered "feminine" (or more pejoratively still, "effeminate"), and evaluated negatively, but the solution to this may not be for women to reject these traits in favor of positively-evaluated traditionally "masculine" ones. Instead, we need to bring about a radical re-evaluation of all traits, approval and disapproval latent in classifying traits as "masculine" and "feminine...
Spell 7 tries to be too much. It not only wants to be political and poetic, but entertaining as well. That the Mather House production fails to be all three is not surprising. Director Benston & crew do succeed, though, in creating a compelling statement about the the latent racism that perpetuates stereotypes and keeps Black actors in condescending Black roles...