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Sullivan also praised Harvard's intensity: "You can't quarrel with the effort. We feel disappointed about the loss, but we'll bounce back...
Himmelfarb rightly states that "for the historian, as for the philosopher, the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns is being superceded by a quarrel between the Moderns and the Post-moderns. If the greatest subversive principle of modernity is historicism--a form of relativism that locates the meaning of ideas and events so firmly in their historical context that history, rather than philosophy and nature, becomes the arbiter of truth--postmodernism is now confronting us with a far more subversive form of relativism, a relativism so radical, so absolute, as to be antithetical to both history and truth...
...quarrel lies not with feminism per se, but with feminism incompletely or dishonestly or opportunistically pursued. Women must do their share, not just take the share they find attractive. Equality must be equality in all things, not just in the professional opportunities that white middle- and upper- middle-class women wish to exploit. Equality is a matter of real responsibility and risk, of accepting the liabilities as well as claiming the assets...
...Neill had been fiances since her senior year at Annapolis. Two days before the murder, however, she broke off their engagement. Smith then sent a 13-page letter begging her to reconsider. They were seen arguing on Tuesday evening, just hours before the killing. She left that quarrel in tears. At about 1:45 a.m., Smith reached O'Neill's sixth-floor apartment at the bachelor officers' quarters. He found Grizzard visiting O'Neill, exchanged angry words and then opened fire. Within seconds, all three were dead...
...starkly, he had zero interest in the work it did. A learned but extraordinarily narrow specialist, he saw the space and the moneys the museum uses as assets he could annex to his own archaeological enterprises. In this sense his war against the museum is an easily understood university quarrel. It's what one Harvard wag calls "space imperialism...