Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question. It is: Are we as a society going to come to terms in an open-minded, accepting and loving way with the natural diversity of human sexual behavior...
...most of us at Cornell, our campaign for black studies was not negative, bitter or antiwhite in any way, but many white faculty were dismayed by these demands; to them such studies were not even a legitimate academic topic. When the most emotional black students and the most emotional faculty began to dominate debate in their respective circles, violent confrontation became unavoidable...
...even the solitary act of writing is influenced by the center. "We're not writing the kind of books, unless there's some mistake, that will find their way to racks in bus stations," says Joseph Beatty, who will be teaching philosophy at Duke next year. But he finds himself thinking oddly subversive thoughts, like "I have to persuade society philosophers are needed...
...language, which, time and again, overwhelms his command of narrative and the telling (and telling, and telling) anecdote. In the relatively unploughed terrain of Los Angeles Times history (the most interesting parts of the book), Halberstam details how the unscrupulous Harry Chandler in the 1880s hooked and crooked his way to control over subscription lists for L.A.'s three morning dailies. Then, by combining forces with one of them, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis's Times, Chandler forced the Times's main competitor out of business. Later, with the help of a bribed federal reclamation engineer, Chandler stole the water from...
...space of four pages about Henry Luce, for example, Halberstam calls him "large on the landscape," "brilliant," "incredible," "legendary," "shrewd," "muscular," "powerfully influential," and describes both Luce and Life magazine as "dazzling" within six lines of each other. Almost every one of Halberstam's media moguls are "geniuses," one way or another. Almost every reporter in the book is described as "brilliant" and "fiercely independent." Halberstam's villains, like CBS programmer James Aubrey, fairly drip bile off the page...