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When the staff voted to reject the ad, Playboy made the refusal national news...
...alarmists are right only in that there ismuch to fear today. But if the academic world wereto grant the conclusion that there is little or nohope, the baleful predictions might well cometrue. When more universities reject self pity andtake instead a forthright stand against eachunfounded attack, the education can match in itsown defense that spirit of progress and initiativewhich has marked its advance in every otherintellectual endeavor...
...write" is not only to do these things. It is to be involved in the process of doing these things, and in one's incarnation as a writer to fully become these processes and to make them human each time, to reject formula, to hate the sclerotic...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject--we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
...reject tyranny in practice because no one possesses the wisdom and justice to exercise it beneficently. But why should we reject it in theory? If we care only about physical safety and material luxury, there is no reason to reject tyranny in theory. If we care about honor, however, we will reject even a beneficent tyranny...