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Unlike most of the book's civilian purchasers, they read on past Bloom's juicy passages on the mental masturbation of the MTV generation. There they found Bloom lamenting the "Nietzscheanization"--i.e., descent into cheap nihilism and easy relativism unworthy of Nietzsche--of the American university. In his longing for a return to a more Socratic conception of higher education, however, Bloom's later critics correctly discerned an author whose relationship with the democratic idea was ambiguous...
...ANCIENT TEXTS were, literally, Greek to Stone. He taught himself the language and read them in the original, bringing to them the enthusisam of the muckraker and the autodidact. He loves the material, and his sense of excitement is contagious. Publication of the book is justfied if only to have a man with Stone's impeccable "progressive" credentials on record as a lover of the much-maligned great books. It can only help to have a writer with Stone's verve bring the ancient texts and characters to life and demonstrate how the classic writers of Athens speak...
...often forgotten that democracy is an idea and that, like most great insights, it is not without paradox. One paradox is what to do with characters such as Socrates, who are vocal in their profound opposition to the democratic idea. Stone knows that the classic authors must be read, if only so that we can better refute them...
...Republican race, Bush read the writing on the wall and made little effort in both Midwestern states, focusing instead on the South...
...events closed with a poetry reading in Sanders Theater. A group of about 60, including students, homeless persons and other community residents, listened to several Boston-area poets read from their work...