Word: reaganization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such a Harvard, it would be possible to engage in a campus-wide discussion about AIDS, particularly last Wednesday, World AIDS Day. Instead, at this Harvard, we had the monumentally vicious scheduling of the conservative dinner, providing an opportunity to reminisce about the bad old days of the Reagan administration...
...course, you will recall, Ronald Reagan's approach to AIDS education and AIDS policy was tantamount to ignoring genocide; more than 20,000 people had died by the time Reagan uttered the word AIDS in a public address. His refusal to acknowledge the epidemic in its earliest stages contributed to its becoming the major American public health catastrophe of this and perhaps any other century. Despite repeated entreaties from the Centers for Disease Control, Reagan adamantly refused to discuss the epidemic or permit any of his public health officials to do so. Implicit here was the perception that these people...
...well add a bit of fiction to a biography. But a much more compelling reason for creativity in biography stems from the problem of entertaining the reader. If the reader wants to relive the life of John Glenn, why not let the reader relive an embellished life of Reagan, in a sense more complete and enticing than the real thing. Does it really matter what Balthus was really like? At least we can relive the life of some character named Balthus. After all, there's a reason that non-fiction works are protected from having to compete with fiction...
...assertion poses a problem for biographers: do you place more emphasis on the life of the subject, or on the artistic value of the biography itself? One of the most controversial and talked about biographies released this fall was Edmund Morris' Dutch, a biography of former president Ronald Reagan that grappled with just this question. By including a fictional character in the midst of his otherwise serious biography, Morris caused an uproar over the standards of factual and historical accuracy in the literary world while asserting his belief in the artistic merit of biography. Although perhaps compromising the historical integrity...
Nixon's dead, Carter and Ford are piddling around as retired folk, Reagan barely remembers that he was once president, and Bush is busy grooming his successor to the throne. While we impatiently wait for Clinton to finish his office antics and half-listen to the presidential candidates of 2000 talk about their visions, what about our own past student presidents? FM recently caught up with a few past student government presidents (you know, it wasn't always called the Undergraduate Council), figured out what they're doing now and discussed their experiences while in office...