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...Swanson's "Benign Apartheid at Harvard" is a bit much. It is one of the more disturbing examples of the paternalistic pat-on-the-head that white leftists are wont to give black separatists for their so-called Black Power posture toward white racism and white power structures. In regard to Dean John Dunlop, Swanson is simply wrong. There was nothing racist about Dunlop's efforts to restore academic standards to Afro-American Studies. He was doing little more than following proposals that I and Professor Orlando Patterson had formulated over a year...
...considerations, we need to be more open-minded than many people presently are concerning what lectures can contribute for which neither Gutenberg nor McLuhan is a ready substitute. Students can respond actively or passively: participating vicariously in the lecturer's own efforts, or sitting back as many students are wont to do, watching the performance, and providing little feedback to themselves, let alone the lecturer...
...must be added that this Pope is really a nun called Joan. The time is the Middle Ages. The Saxons, as is their wont, have been sacking the countryside, raping and pillaging and generally making a nuisance of themselves. Under such circumstances, it is hardly safe for a young nun to travel openly. When Joan (Liv Ullmann) must flee her nunnery, loyal Father Adrian (Maximilian Schell) chops her long honey-colored hair into a kind of modified Sassoon, outfits her in a monk's habit and runs with her from the marauding hordes...
While she sees several men regularly, Lynn is also wont to go out unescorted with married couples and never feels the least pressure to remarry. Says she: "I've come close a couple of times, but there simply aren't that many marriages I envy. A lot of women are just hanging in there for the security, but that's a dumb reason to get married. As for children, I'm too much of a perfectionist to put up with them. I'd be a rotten mother...
...together Stop the World -I Want to Get Off, Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, will be back with another marquee-macerating title, It's a Funny Old World We Live In, but the World's Not Entirely to Blame. Newley will play Everyman, as is his wont. Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death is a musical "of the street with street people" that takes an all-black look at the Promised Land called America...