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...were very similar to those made in Katari's article: the first year is drudgery; you learn the math after you are required to know it for physics; better section leaders are needed; the teaching is lousy. Professor Francis M. Pipkin, chair at the time, mediated the discussion with overt sympathy...
...York University: "The gay movement is actually based upon two principles that collide. One is privacy, and the other is disclosure, the process of coming out." Those focused on privacy are responding to society as it exists, with its emotional and sometimes physical perils for overt homosexuals. Those favoring disclosure are more concerned with society as they hope it may become, with tolerance for all. The political "causists" are prepared to sacrifice their present lives for future good. The problem with outing is that it claims an unjustifiable right to sacrifice the lives of others as well, whether they agree...
...meanings of art are not confined to masterpieces. A piece of kitsch can tell us as much about its time as a Mondrian, which does not mean that it ceases to be kitsch. Mediocre or rotten art carries all sorts of social data -- messages that may have been overt or subliminal, but in either case work their way out (with a final tweak from their interpreters) over the years...
...Overt sexism is no longer the primary reason that few women hold faculty positions, fellows and faculty members say. Instead, they say, the problem stems from subtle forms of discrimination and the efforts at accommodation women feel they must make if they are to succeed in what some still consider a man's world...
...their job with a loyalty bordering on fanaticism. Other uniformed crack troops, equipped with armored vehicles and helicopter gunships, were assigned to supervise the country's border patrol and guard the political prisons. A particularly brutish department known as Service K specialized in torturing political prisoners. Apart from these overt operations, as many as 3 million informants and collaborators -- in a population of 23 million -- clandestinely monitored mail and telephone conversations, analyzed handwriting samples to track down the sources of dissident material, tailed foreigners and spied on citizens in every apartment block, village and factory. Their ubiquitous presence helps explain...