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Fiscal discipline? In fact, the project is cultural defoliation--an attempt to destroy "liberal" habitat. If there was any doubt about its momentum, the young velociraptors in Congress--freshman ideologues, mostly, squeaking with Newtish zeal--buried it three weeks ago. These boys and girls aren't even cultural Neanderthals. They're Jurassic. On culture, the limbic forebrain can hold one sound bite at a time, courtesy of Rush Limbaugh or George Will. PBS? "Elitist welfare for the rich." The NEA? "State-subsidized porn." The NEH? "P.c. revisionist history." By a vote of 230 to 194, driven by a rump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PULLING THE FUSE ON CULTURE | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

...same time, this year Liston acted properly in rejecting Hanselman's resolution to fund ROTC and--reversing his own position--in helping to repeal the term-bill increase. Liston said he hoped to forget the past, and in his Newtish "Contract With the College" he did offer many well-founded suggestions for council projects: visits by council board members to all undergraduate rooms, council office hours in the Houses and quality-of-life changes such as dormitory lighting. Still, Liston's administrative record makes him a questionable choice for the council's top executive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choose Coffey for Council President | 2/4/1995 | See Source »

...nothing is the Anglo-Saxon "snow" derived from Sanskrit sneha, 'moisture,' or the Gaelic sneachd. Of late, unwonted newtish wetness pervades the simmering gutters, and as if for efts lies puddling on the pavements. The icicles, sad eyelids of the white-haired residences, weep down the ivy cheeks and in despair cascade in shattering barrages on the innocents below. Minutious capillary streets transmit a filthy umbrous melt to unreceptive veins, unopened sewers, and all along the byways mounds of pablumgrey constrict the traveler from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Job | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

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