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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, these "Thinking liberals" disgust me. Don't get me wrong--although I am conservative, I have nothing against thinking. But I greatly prefer the honest liberals who refer to themselves as "bleeding hearts." I respect them for their self-awareness and their sophisticated understanding of how political views are to a large degree socially determined...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Bleed On, Liberals | 4/30/1994 | See Source »

...check out the "Exterior Lighting or Memorial Hall" tonight at sundown? Or how about a display at the Fogg Art Museum entitled, "What, if anything, is an object?" If you're wondering what, if anything, you'd get out of watching lights splash onto Memorial Hall, perhaps you'd prefer "Raining Photography," a selection form the Adams House Studio Arts Program featuring squash court shower rooms. if promises to provide a "multisensory experience." At least that sounds a little friskier...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/30/1994 | See Source »

...their chairs for a standing ovation, they were either drained or still preoccupied with the play. Some around me were mulling the scenes over while others hardly seemed to realize it was a play at all. The woman in front of me cursed and moaned in disbelief throughout. I prefer a different angle on the strength of this play's illusion; I have waited a long time for a production I could simply rave about, and here it is. With a stunning rendition of Arthur Miller's wrenching masterpiece, The Crucible, director David Travis and company have raised a standard...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: The Crucible Sets News Standards | 4/28/1994 | See Source »

...number of students say they would prefer to have been told about the reports at the beginning of the year...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewing, | Title: Proctors Evaluate students | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...burden of a pioneer to be the presumed spokesman for all "his people." Ellison, a sensible gent, declined this honor. He was not every black writer; he was a black writer -- or, as he might prefer, a writer. And, for some blacks, he was guilty of having allowed himself to be praised by white critics. In the '60s, when the civil rights sing-along gave way to Black Power shock therapy, Ellison found himself overshadowed by more urgent novelists, such as Richard Wright (Native Son), who played Malcolm X to Ellison's Martin Luther King Jr. Ellison compiled two volumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invincible Man: Ralph Ellison 1914-1994 | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

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