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Dates: during 1980-1989
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INSTEAD of quick action, the committee proposed layer upon layer of new bureaucracy. The Verba Report makes no stinging criticisms of Harvard's recruitment policies and offers no resounding moral statements about the need to increase FAS's diversity...
Deutsch's speech, "Visibility and Power: Chicanas in the Southwest," was based upon her recent book, No Seperate Refuge: Culture, Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest 1880-1940. In her book, she examines the communal life of the Hispanic woman, the way Anglo society changed that life and the effects this had on what she called the "visibility" of Chicanas...
Both scriptures and stories have always assured us that people create their own destinies, bring down upon themselves the justice they deserve. In this case, however, the justice could hardly be described as poetic. Both sides have, in a sense, got exactly what they wanted -- only to find that perhaps they should not have wanted it after all. In banning the book, various wise bodies have ignored the truth that every parent knows: a prohibition is often an invitation in disguise. And in making his Valentine's Day call for massacre, Khomeini seems to have gone beyond overkill to hubris...
...West, the issue largely seemed to resolve itself into a question of free speech. But in Iran, a vastly different phenomenon was taking shape: the Ayatullah had seized upon Rushdie's book as a flaming spear with which to halt his country's creeping trend toward moderation. Within days, the "liberals" who had seemed to be in the ascendant in Tehran dropped from sight. They had been trying to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties with the West in order to rebuild the country following its disastrous eight-year war with Iraq...
...from the tongues of underprivileged youth. The wide-eyed wonder of city life may never have been more vibrantly shown than among the World War II-era sailors aprowl in On the Town. The comic chase among cops, con men, thugs and bathing beauties from High Button Shoes improves upon the fizzy Mack Sennett one-reelers that inspired...