Word: paglia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paglia, who credited her upbringing in the public schools of upstate New York and her Italian heritage for her love of art, said "the feeling of reverence, the feeling towards grandeur has been stripped away from students...
...force of Paglia's ire remained on the "humanities departments in elite schools," Who, she said, ignore the real problems that exist...
...previous speeches in Cambridge, Paglia had specifically attacked Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler and Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature Susan R. Suleiman...
Shifting her focus to the national educationalstage, Paglia also condemned forced bussing andbilingual education, saying her mother never wouldhave learned English without immersion in thelanguage...
While the majority of the audienceenthusiastically applauded Paglia, some studentsattending last night said they found her ideas"silly...