Word: newtish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...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...
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