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...Harvard, undergraduate members of the Phoenix Club reportedly voted to admit women in the spring of 1989, but pressure from the graduate board led the club to reject the idea of going coed...
NEARLY 1200 years ago, a Jewish sect known as the Karaites tried to reject the tradition of rabbinic interpretation in favor of literal readings of original text. Finding this approach fundamentally un-Jewish, the Jewish community banished Karaism. Exegesis, discussion and reinterpretation are central to Jewish tradition. AALARM's co-presidents would have the Jewish community abandon that tradition and replace it with a literal devotion to translated text, something notably representative of certain Protestant sects...
...artists' evident hypocrisy lies in their creating overtly political or ideological work in which the content is intended to be the work's major value, and then quickly proclaiming the "freedom" of art from ideological standards as soon as their intended funders reject the work's ideology. Like immature adolescents, they want the thrill of offending the establishment without any curtailment of the benefits of that establishment's patronage...
...novelist Alice Walker, not as artists but as fragments of sociology. Shakespeare is deemed to represent the outlook of a racist, sexist and classist 16th century England, while Walker allegedly embodies a better but still oppressive 20th century America. Finally, imagine a society in which some of the teachers reject the very ideas of rationality, logic and dialogue as the cornerstone assumptions of learning -- even when discussing science...
...language they used. A master of innuendo, Mitterrand never called, as did Bush, for Saddam's "overthrow," but described the Iraqi's "political, moral and military authority" as "seriously weakened"; privately, Mitterrand is known to believe Saddam has little chance to survive as head of state. Nor did Mitterrand reject Mikhail Gorbachev's belated peace plan outright: Foreign Minister Roland Dumas called it a step in the right direction -- and then sliced it to shreds with diplomatic "corrections" and an insistence on deadlines that helped Bush fashion the ultimatum...