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...them to eliminate sharp edges and outlaw flirtation between strangers and rearrange the playing field so that the sidelines are the goals. Liberals are in charge of the schools, and they rewrite the tests to keep the scores from dropping. Liberals run the churches, and nobody talks about sin lest it tend to make folks feel marginalized...
...would urge you and your colleagues to be in touch with this office before raising matters on the Faculty floor, lest you jeopardize the courtesy [of] the chair [President Neil L. Rudenstine]," Fox wrote...
...open mind. No longer will a soft-voiced speaker accuse another candidate of egregious crimes while somber music plays in the background. No more will opposing candidates be pictured in black-and-white photographs that look like mug shots. No longer will we have to steel ourselves against advertising lest we react too favorably to words that twist the truth. We're done with that...but only in the political process...
...this context that Blomberg, given his position on the religious/political spectrum, makes a remarkably friendly assessment of the Jesus Seminar. "People like Crossan," he ventures, "see themselves, though we might disagree, as holding out one way of salvaging something of Christianity lest the whole thing deteriorate into pure unbelief...
...word here is "autonomy." Students at Harvard must be allowed to maintain control of their organizations, lest the clubs quickly become not "student groups" but "groups nominally run by students but really controlled by the administration...