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...dismisses as "feminist propaganda" is the study of theories that attempt to account for these statistics. I suppose then that other courses are also "vehicles for propaganda"--including Christian propaganda, Marxist propaganda or secular-humanist propaganda. I would guess that the Afro-American Studies courses are sympathetic to the plight of Blacks; does that make the field less legitimate? One would hope that the new concentration would indeed by objective and worthy of the term "scholarly pursuit." Pauline...
Wiesel's 30 books have ranged from biblical studies to an examination of the plight of Soviet Jews. Indeed, last week he exhorted Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to allow five Soviet Jews, as well as Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, to emigrate, and this week he is traveling to Moscow to help organize a conference on non-Jewish victims of Nazism. Wiesel has also worked to help Cambodian refugees, the Miskito Indians in Nicaragua and starving children in Africa...
Gelber's straightforward direction showcases Stoppard's sharp verbal exchanges and dazzling wordplay. He and Watson make a fine team, both of them endearing in their pathetic plight. And but for a few swallowed lines, the supporting cast keeps the inspiring lunacy going at a quick, clever pace. Stoppard's stock of metaphysical puns and absurd rhetoric of despair flies so fast that they rarely become over-bearing. From all sides of the coin, a spirited showing for two of the Bard's interchangeable bit players...
Director Brosh knew that the absurd plight of Eleanor Mann's family had to be acted out with comic melodrama. But, as it has often been said, it takes very good acting to portray bad acting well. And unfortunately, the actors portraying the Mann family and their various persecutors aren't quite that good, so that the audience isn't sure how much of the bad acting is intentional. Indeed, it is a relief when the melodrama is dropped, and Eleanor opts for more sincere tones...
American Catholic academics and liberals have protested against the treatment of Curran, who may find himself shut out from other Catholic institutions as well; it is likely that none will dare give him a teaching job now. Curran says his own plight will create a general "chilling factor, at minimum. Certainly people are going to have to think twice about what they might write." Francis Fiorenza, a colleague of Curran's at Catholic University, predicts that despite efforts at dissuasion by U.S. educators, the Vatican will issue controversial new rules requiring that theology teachers on all Catholic campuses be approved...