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...Duncan ’09’s all-girls Catholic school in Kentucky pushed for a ban on several English books containing objectionable material like child abuse and pre-marital sex. The books included “Red Tent,” “Flowers for Algernon,” and “House on Mango Street,” or “normal books that people read all the time,” as Duncan described them. “They wrote a 20-page questionnaire, and they took a bunch of quotes...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Losing My Religion | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

What's your favorite book? -Zora Brozina, Zagreb, CroatiaI loved A Wrinkle in Time. I dearly love Flowers for Algernon. There is an unpublished manuscript that I think is going to soon be published. It's by a guy named Rich Gold who died way too young. It's called The Plenitude. It's an obscure reference, but one that I hope will become less obscure over time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Randy Pausch | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...motto have little to do with the image of the Native American. They were both tacked on to the seal during the Revolutionary War, at a time when Massachusetts was at the center of a bloody political struggle against monarchism. The Latin motto is lifted from the English rebel Algernon Sydney, a vehement opponent of the Restoration who was executed for conspiring to kill Charles II. It refers not to a conquest of native peoples but to an ethos of colonial liberation that had become the archetypal sentiment of Massachusetts patriots. The image of the sword refers to the first...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: The Semiotics of the Seal | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...angels fear to tread. See what damage the Danish indiscretion has caused? We in South Africa have come to appreciate that other religions and cultures should be respected. We have the impression that white Europeans are unable to appreciate fundamental differences between peoples. Consequently, harmful remarks arise from ignorance. Algernon Loxton Cape Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...angels fear to tread. See what damage the Danish indiscretion has caused? We in South Africa have come to appreciate that other religions and cultures should be respected. We have the impression that white Europeans are unable to appreciate fundamental differences between peoples. Consequently, harmful remarks arise from ignorance. Algernon Loxton Cape Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secrets of Ambition | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

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