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...preacher' s most spectacular performance -- a public confession following a private admission of meeting prostitutes along a motel strip near New Orleans. So it' s scoundrel time again for Pray TV, a raucous realm that was stumbling toward recovery after ptl and a disastrous 1987. At stake: a $150 million- a- year empire and Evangelicalism' s tattered public image...
...worst are the visigoths of vapidity that have been catapulted by hypertrophied marketing corportations into the realm of the so-called cutting edge. The search for multi-million record sellers has truly created some strange monsters. Nothing in the cultural history of the Western world, for example, could be weirder than the spectacle of Michael Jackson, a man who has changed his race via countless operations on his face, singing "I'm looking at the man in the mirror/...I'm gonna make a change.." completely seriously. Not only is Michael Jackson a semi-human entity who makes the headlines...
...okay for adolescent fools like the punks in Harvard Square to waste their time in the fantasy world of mockrebellion. But rock 'n' roll has spread its marketing tentacles into the realm of the adult, and its insidious, insipid rhythms have reached into ads for expensive cars, frozen foods, and even dishwasher detergent. It is not rebellion against the establishment; it is the establishment. Youthful fantasy has become reality...
...council is possibly the least powerful student government in the entire nation. In America, the student center is the traditional realm of student government. But at Harvard, there is no center for the council to run. No building, no grill, no lecture hall, no cinema, nothing. In addition, the council holds no sway over the governance of the College, and can't even stand up for the most basic of student rights. The administration tramples all over the student body--witness the new alcohol policy--without one word of protest from the council...
...university can be a democratizing minor leagues for American society, it is serving a great and noble social purpose. Allan Bloom ignores this idea of the university because it only makes sense in the realm of worldly power and relationships that he abjures. Like his hero Socrates, the city that could claim his allegiance exists only in speeches, not anywhere on earth...