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...storyline itself. An appearance on “The Today Show” followed by a stint filling in for Kelly Ripa on “Live with Regis and Kelly,” combined with an appearance with Barbara Walters and the gang on “The View??—all airing on the same morning—seemed nauseating overkill, even to fans of Leno’s “Tonight Show” monologues and incessant chin jokes...
...perhaps obvious to a fault. For in the days following the slew of incidents being reported, what began on campus as collective outrage quickly outran itself and sputtered into accusations of overworked hysteria and witch hunts targeting pro-war students. Somewhere, the issue most urgent and in plainest view??the breakdown of intellectual discourse at a university—got lost in the shuffle...
...mail opposing the war in Iraq. Sounding oddly like his own accusers, Summers appeared to think that the Palfreys’ strong, reasoned opinion should remain under wraps simply because they were University officials. Many who had supported him earlier were shaken. Before he had merely expressed his own view??why, now, was Summers proving his critics right three months later by telling others not to express theirs? More criticism came...
Diverse maxims appear within its pages, many of which Mailer sutured together into an article in a late December issue of The New Yorker: “the most powerful leverage in fiction comes from point of view?? (found in an analysis of the last draft of his third novel, The Deer Park); “film is best when ambiguous” (found in an essay on writing for the silver screen); “your material only becomes valuable when it is existential, by which I mean an experience you do not control” (found...
...take Buell and his colleagues at their word. What should we expect next? A distinguished lecture series in which racism, misogyny, and anti-gay discrimination are wrapped in eloquent, perhaps even persuasive, rhetoric? Are these also merely other “points of view?? that could be defended in the name of “diversity” and tolerance? Surely not: speakers espousing such positions would never have been invited in the first place. Are some forms of hate speech more protected than others? Having suspended an unwise invitation, the English department inadvertently made Paulin?...