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...studied America’s literature as well, finding that “a lot of the classic literature on interracial friendship, Melville, Cooper, Twain, all of them, in creating their classic stories, were self-conscious of using friendship as a way to explore American political ideals...
...Only a die-hard travel writer (which Schultz is, and one who claims descent from Mark Twain at that) could imagine that visiting all of these disparate places is remotely achievable. Nonetheless, just the notion alone is salivating?even if you will never ride an elephant in Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, or saunter languidly past the ruins of the ancient Guatemalan city of Antigua ("Spain's capital of all of middle America, until the epic earthquake of 1773," according to the book...
...Taillevent?" she asks, referring to two well-known but very different restaurants. The answer is that the world would ultimately be a much less delectable dish if it were only composed of truffles. Only a die-hard travel writer (which Schultz is - and one who claims descent from Mark Twain at that) could imagine that visiting all of these disparate places is remotely achievable. Nonetheless, just the notion alone is salivating - even if you will never ride an elephant in Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, or saunter languidly past the ruins of the ancient Guatemalan...
Herein lies the problem with Harvard’s value-neutral Core: Western society is better than its alternatives. The “dead white men” whom multiculturalists demean—as if syllabi focusing on the likes of Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald marginalize women and minorities—in fact encourage inquiries that invalidate the grotesque marginalization observed in other societies. Shakespeare, for example, challenges students to discover human truths transcending the perspective of any one ethnic group or gender...
Conformity, Twain writes, “is born of the human being’s natural yearning to stand well with his fellows and have their inspiring approval and praise—a yearning which is commonly so strong and so insistent that it cannot be effectually resisted and must have its way.” Conformity is the recourse of the man who “can’t bear to be in disfavor, can’t endure the averted face and the cold shoulder, wants to stand well with his friends, wants to be smiled upon...