Word: marius
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...Richard Marius deserves a vigorous defense against the morally obtuse Martin Peretz ("Marius `Unhired' as Gore Aid," news story, Jul. 21, 1995). I served as a faculty member under Marius for two years; a forthwright and sometimes outspoken intellectual, he has always drawn a steady flow of criticsm, and like all of us, he has his faults. As a colleague of Marius, as a sometime critic of the man, and as a Jew, let me be emphatic: anti-Semitism is not one of those faults...
...Marius joins the company of notable Jewish intellects, best represented by Hannah Arendt, who enrage the entrenched leaders of Jewish political orthodoxy by pointing out their most dangerous failures to conduct themselves as decent citizens of the world. All Jews are well served by these honest moral criticisms of our leaders, and Peretz would do well as a member of the Harvard faculty, and as a Jew, to broaden his moral vision and admit that when a Jew tortures, when a Jew abducts a citizen from his or her home, when a Jew serves his state through terror, that...
...Luther scholars were mad at me, but I said itwas a crime to ignore it," Marius said...
...Marius said he has no regrets, despite the lostopportunity...
...Marius also defended himself by citing a 1974book he wrote about the Protestant reformer MartinLuther. In the book, he castigated scholars forfailing to acknowledge Luther's anti-Semitism...