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...position by Jamie Billett on Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield's raucous claim that gays "undermine civilization" (Crimson, Oct. 22) is quaint but sadly mistaken...
...quaint because it is so wonderfully civil libertarian, fitting so snugly in the legalistic mainstream regarding freedom of speech issues. As such, Billett's position jibes well too with a very smart formulation of the civil libertarian position on free speech by my friend Prof. Henry Louis Gates that appeared in The New Republic (Sept...
Doerr breathes vitality into a flat-tire genre. The past few years have positively seethed with charming, Toujours Provence-like depictions of the rustic life of those quaint foreign folk. Authors tend to subscribe to the crude narrative conventions of culture clash and nation of contrasts, where faraway lands seduce the reader with their irrational, undeveloped, unhurried, unchanging, quintessentially un-Western ways. And readers, doubtless locked in urban sprawl and economic recession, have lapped up such escapist literature with alacrity...
...becomes pregnant, and falls victim to her haggard mother-in-law's Old World superstitions. Her first miscarried child seems to possess a chicken's wings. Why? Because she walked into the butcher's shop while Joseph slaughtered a turkey, of course. We know that something other than a quaint portrait of 1940s Little Italy is taking form here...
...fourth lie--no secret--is that Harvard has little interest in truth. With the triumph of cultural relativism, veritas has become more of a quaint reminder of the past--an elegant decoration on coffee cups, stationery and diplomas--than a standard to which we aspire...