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...objection to the Core as an illiberal measure is a specious one. Although a faculty-penned syllabus would probably exclude broadening courses on topics of concern to many students such as Afro-American history, there is no reason to expect that students not already involved in such areas will spend course time on them within a curriculum free of restrictions. Without restrictions, students will pursue their inclinations until classes become homogeneous, at which point confrontation and discourse will cease...
...beyond questions of culture, what most Americans undoubtedly will find hardest to swallow about Ionesco's outlook is its total lack of methodology. You might try to argue, for example, that his political views are extremely specious--but then, he really has no "politics" at all. Providing you can get by this, however, what really becomes most interesting about the present-day Ionesco is his increasing optimism in the last two years that this metaphysical world is imminent. Before this he spoke often of his own social isolation and of the leftist's need to "redeem their crimes with suffering...
Therefore, Jesus was either a suicidal megalomaniac whose charisma has endured unaccountably for more than 1,950 post-mortem years, or he is, as claimed, divine Lord and Saviour. Any other claim is specious, so we must choose: belief or ridicule...
...system seems as bizarre as that of show biz. Sums paid the big stars appear surreal when compared with other salaries. But the trouble is, such comparisons are specious. For in reimbursing a star, whether of stage, screen or playing field, the entertainment industry is not really paying an employee so much as making a capital appropriation. It is not by chance that in show biz a popular figure is called a hot "property." The star actually is the product to be sold. That the price of such properties has soared is not surprising in a personality-craving society...
...safe to say that the exclusion of Mather and Dunster Houses from the hot breakfast group is a short-sighted move, one that is insensitive to its impact on already unpopular Mather. To argue that the Mather-Dunster kitchen must be closed for breakfast to obtain maximum savings is specious: if the hot breakfast is to be rotated from House to House, as Fox has said he hopes to do, these savings will disappear next year anyway. Starting the cycle in Mather or Dunster would make no financial difference; but it would probably help to offset Mather's other problems...