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...rise within Western democracies of an "industry of blame," bent on fostering a one-sided notion of historical guilt. According to those who hold this view, everything that is bad, especially in the Third World, results from forces in the "rich" - meaning capitalist -democracies. Thus any Western attempt to resist Communist aggression, as in Angola or Viet Nam, arouses intellectual confusion and paralysis. Says Revel: "There was a time when you were an imperialist if you invaded an alien territory and imposed on independent peoples an authority they rejected. Today, you are an imperialist if you oppose such aggression...
...hard to resist the conclusion that he campaign to secure Harvard's purity by driving the Clubs out is simply a latter day exercise in the Puritanism of our forebears. Like those blue-nosed, grimvisaged zealors, some now cannot abide the notion that any should live by standards others than their own. Persuaded, again, that Truth is finally known (centering this time on equality and non-discrimination) the New Puritans will not rest until their principles are practiced, willy-nilly...
Finally, I cannot resist a word in defense of the dirty-minded men of Pi Eta. Once made public, their words and thoughts must be condemned. But does anyone doubt that such thoughts will recur in young male minds? (And--equity demands--that complementary thoughts may occur in young female minds?) It is desirable to try to make all who think such thoughts feel guilt, a dangerous emotion? Surely, no one proposes action to prevent students from privately discussing such things? Did not the real fault in that incident lie with those who, stumbling accidently on what was clearly...
...thunderhead deficits that could prove anything any candidate wanted to prove. Yet underneath, more enduring and more important, was a clash between American cultures. At bottom the candidates were talking about the community of Americans, torn by enormous surges of new forces, bewildered by how to greet or resist them. The campaign was about how we live together-in short, about our culture as a nation in change...
...they have their own agenda. They demand passage of the Equal Rights Amendment as the seal of all equality, although it can be argued that the ERA might prove to be of dubious merit for it gives to men equal rights with women, such as the right to resist draft in wartime if women are not drafted, or the right to refuse combat duty if women may refuse. Women's agenda includes, as is long overdue, equal pay for equal work-but also includes equal pay for "comparable worth" in any job, a matter more difficult to define. Their...