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...first script for the exhibition, which will display a part of the reassembled Enola Gay, was way left of the mark. It interpreted Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a way that managed to transport a righteous '60s moral stance on Viet Nam ("Baby killers!") back in time to portray the Japanese as more or less innocent victims of American beastliness and lust for revenge. As if the Japanese had been conquering Asia by Marquess of Queensbury rules. The curators said to the American public, "Murderer! Hello...
...that the Dissent article and the subsequent responses to it mark "the beginning, not the end, of a debate." But in the same Dissent issue where Genovese's essay appears are six mostly negative reactions from academics. Alice Kessler- Harris of Rutgers University accuses Genovese of being as self-righteous as the radicals he criticizes. Sean Wilentz of Princeton University persuasively argues that Genovese has painted with too broad a brush and fails to credit those leftists -- including Dissent's founding editors -- who early on rejected Bolshevism and all its works. Robin D.G. Kelley of the University of Michigan argues...
...name in a collection of "alternative new queer writing" edited by novelist Dennis Cooper (he of the Jeffrey Daumer-like heroes and highly-theorized fascination with rimming). Sedaris' entry in this in-your-face collection was called "Glenn's Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2," a lampoon of self-righteous activism and P.C. paranoia. (Glenn indulges in frequent digressions about cruel ex-boyfriends and screams intolerance when a cornerstore cashier resists an inelegant, intrusive seduction). It was funny, a little off-color but not quite as deliberately smellyas some of the other offerings...
...town rebel (Paul Rudd). How cool is this guy? "I like bein' bored," he mutters. The film also has a nice parody of the hectoring speech every movie parent had to endure in a '50s teen movie. "Do you people ever sit down and talk to your kids?" a righteous detective asks the frazzled moms and dads. "I mean, really talk to them about sex and sexual diseases -- about the strange night world of twisted kicks and weird rituals and equipment, the whips and chains and rubber balls and dildos and handcuffs." (Rubber balls...
...would do well to turn down the flip, patronizing tone of your work. You've got a whole lifetime ahead of you to get so righteous...