Word: nas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This division of academic life into warring special interest groups would only be enhanced by morality-play stereotyping of TDC as the white knight (oops, knight of color) that would do battle against the monolithic evil empire of the NAS...
Stephen H. Balch, president and executive director of NAS, called the group's formation "a defensive reaction...
...Given the extreme right wing position members of the NAS have taken, this organization might be useful in bringing us back to the center," said Gates...
Besides attacking the NAS, the group's prospectus criticized Dinesh D'Souza, author of Illiberal Education and National Endowment for the Humanities Chair Lynn V. Cheney, accusing them of "blatant hypocrisy" and intolerance...
...rather strange that people who have been so powerful in academic life feel the need to form such an organization," said Balch. But Winthrop Professor of History Stephen A. Thernstrom, a member of NAS and a prominent critic of political correctness, said that he welcomed the opportunity for increased debate...