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...publicly calling upon the administration to reprimand a faculty member will intimidate those less bold than Mansfield (most everybody) and lead to an insidious self-censorship. No student, faculty member or administrator should feel repressed on the basis of vague and flexible standards of "offensiveness." Free speech must be paramount, for free speech gives us the ability to listen to arguments on both sides, to engage in and encourage real debate. The stifling of unpopular opinions or analyses harms out community and hampers our education. As Mansfield himself said, "The University is about the search for truth. Our motto...
...Paramount to our problems, they claim, is a tendency to pepper our dialogue with the word 'like' as if it were a verbal tic, demonstrating our abysmal vocabularies and utter lack of neurological activity...
...aristocracy might claim that the new group would not be representative of the population at large. It's true that in order to make the aristocracy fair, the government would have to ensure scrupulously equal opportunity of education and fair testing. In fact, such a social goal would gain paramount importance in an aristocratic system. No one can deny, though, that equality of education has always proven an elusive goal...
WITH ABOUT 45 MINUTES OF NEW FOOTage added to the already existing theatrical versions, and with the films themselves rearranged in chronological order, THE GODFATHER TRILOGY: 1901-1980 (Paramount; $199.95) amounts to a kind of cinema archaeology in which the skeleton of some great creature is brought forth from the past to stand on exhibit. This Godfather may not look the same, but when the archaeologist in charge is Francis Coppola, the object is not literal reconstruction but further improvement. If only nature got as many second chances as movie directors. This trilogy has a novelistic density, a rueful, unhurried...
...dream that seizes us and pulls us into a world that operates under its own logic. We find ourselves in a landscape where beauty seems as perfect and eternal as it did in bedtime stories. For the space of two hours, we inhabit a universe where imagination is paramount...