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...organization can therefore play an important role, not only by defending that which has been unfairly lumped as PC, but also by opposing those who engage in a sloppy, misguided witch hunt itself ultimately aimed at limiting ideas. There does indeed need to be an examination of issues of academic freedom in today's rapidly-changing universities. But it cannot be conducted only from the right. So long as this group is also willing to engage in true, substantial discussion of the issues involved in PC--and not simply whether PC exists--Teachers for a Democratic Culture can carry...
Iyer tries to focus on spiritual aspects, but Westerners break his concentration. A potter from California confesses, "For a long time, you know, I used to repress this thing about being a witch." Another American, long resident among the Japanese, warns, "The one subject you never mention to them is politics. Never, man. Makes them go dead." Sex is a different matter. Evidences of it are everywhere: in the omnipresent skin magazines, the vending machines for X-rated videos, the cryptic mechanical devices. Iyer notes and rejects them...
Like her contemporary Sylvia Plath, Sexton had a gift of the self- dramatizing and self-destructive kind. She was the mad housewife of Weston, Mass., beautiful if you caught her in the right light, "a possessed witch," as she thought of herself sometimes, "haunting the black air, braver at night." Both Plath and Sexton wound up as cautionary tales. In 1963 Plath stuck her head in an oven in London. Sexton told her psychiatrist, "Sylvia Plath's death disturbs me. Makes me want it too. She took something that was mine, that death was mine!" Eleven years later...
There is, however, an important difference. Uranus is based on a novel by Marcel Ayme, not quite a Nazi apologist but by no means an oppositionist either. He wrote his book as a protest against the communist-led witch hunt for collaborators that followed the war. The film makes the case against the totalitarian intolerance of empowered Stalinism -- in French practice it often amounted to a settling of personal scores -- with persuasive force...
...right beside Machine Gun Kelly. Such exploits built a mythic aura around Hall, who, two years after his release in 1957, became general secretary of a party in turmoil. Gone were the halcyon days of 1932 when a communist candidate for President garnered 102,000 votes. Between McCarthy's witch-hunts and Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin, the party was hemorrhaging...