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...Theodore Robert Geisel, may have been a beermaker, but he had a precision of mind and expression, as evidenced in a letter he sent Ted after the young man, a senior at Dartmouth, had got in trouble with the police after a loud drinking party. "While I do not object to your taking a drink," the brewer wrote his son, "I do object to your taking one in Hanover, while in college, if the rules of the college do not permit it. ... Abide by the decision of the authorities (and) serve your full sentence conscientiously. (M)ake an attempt...
Clearly, the objective study of religion can lead to a nuanced and realistic understanding of today’s increasingly globalized world. Few have a problem with public money to fund such scholarship. What reasonable citizens object to is state funds paying for a dogmatic and colored religious education. Since the Supreme Court’s decision only applies to the funding of theology majors at “pervasively religious schools,” students studying religion at secular institutions will continue to receive public support. In essence, the Court has sought only to prevent taxpayer dollars from funding...
...three years, but Senator Domenici has promised to introduce legislation in Congress that would cut that to two years or less. Domenici's proposal would also make approval of the plant more likely by limiting review of the plant's environmental impact, truncating the appeals process for those who object to the plant and allowing the US government to process the facility's radioactive waste using a tax-payer subsidy...
...Arts, will speak on the death of the historic landscape. She specializes in the art of the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in the work of Gustave Courbet and the Impressionists, as well as the representation of women and the work of women artists. Her book Woman as Sex Object: Studies in Erotic Art, 1730-1970, published in 1972, introduced a feminist perspective to the field of art history and criticism. Free and open to the public. 4 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
...finding the merits of each in their differential treatment of the dialectic of minimalism. “I think Maya’s project, the Vietnam Memorial, is extremely beautiful...but I don’t think it’s about absence. It’s a powerful object,” says Van Valkenburgh. He points out that in contrast, “[Arad]’s initial idea was that the Hudson flowed into these displaced tower voids...