Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard-core revisionists are able to suit the word to the action. "We want the idea of a canon eliminated," insists William King, 21, chairman of Stanford's Black Student Union. "The idea that there could be a core list is Eurocentric and biased." Similar opinions are heard at other schools. At Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., Professor Arnold Krupat declares flatly that there is nothing sacred or broadly cultured about any such canon. In fact, he claims, the idea "is almost exclusively Wasp, male and East Coast...
Nothing in this scene overtly suggests the imminence of comic catastrophe. But experienced readers of Thomas Berger will immediately put on their crash helmets and fasten the safety belts. Newcomers are advised to follow suit. The Houseguest, Berger's 15th novel, picks up some of the pieces scattered by the explosive anarchy of his Neighbors (1980). Once again, an apparently stable domestic setting warps and buckles into chaos, and kindred characters struggle to adjust to a world in which the outrageous has suddenly become the norm...
...penalties Lord faces if found in violation of Cambridge law include criminal prosecution. A rent board finding against Lord could also open the way for Brecher to bring suit...
Dalton said Thursday that she may not decideuntil this summer whether to press the sexualdiscrimination suit against the University whichshe filed in November...
...because a six-member jury and a federal judge cast the facts in the Walters' case in widely different lights the suit could well continue long into the future. Both sides now plan to appeal aspects of last month's rulings on the six discrimination claims in the Walters case--which split five for Harvard, one for Walters. A decision on the appeals could take at least six months to begin, court officials said this week--provided there are no further legal challenges...