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...first-year roommate and fellow Silber supporter Guido Guidotti '91 counters that, "What was apparent about Colin from the beginning was his passion. Colin is a very passionate person who doesn't check his idea if he thinks they'll go against the system, against the politically correct...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Speaking Loudly and Carrying a Big Stick | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...RETURNED and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of the conservatives, oppressed by the politically correct, but they had no comforter, and behold the tears of the politically correct, oppressed by the conservatives, but they had no comforter. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The Vanitas of Veritas | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...even as she looked for a quiet exit, the cause beckoned louder than ever. The backlash against the "politically correct" on college campuses, suddenly ascendant in the national media, threatened to destroy much of what she and her cohorts at AWARE had dedicated themselves to achieving...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Where Idealism and Pragmatism Collide | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...euphemisms behind which we hide our status, as they reinforce unhealthy and undeserved shame. We are not "taking time off"; we are "doing nothing," and should be proud of it. Members of ANGST should no longer mumble vague platitudes about "work and travel" when questioned about their future. The correct responses are "I haven't the foggiest notion," or "Oh, go to hell." We must expunge "plans" (as in "Esmerelda will be starting her joint MD/PhD/JD program at Stanford next fall; have you made plans yet?") from standard English lexicon. It should be obvious that the time for planning...

Author: By David J. Socolow, | Title: Yes, We Have No Life | 6/5/1991 | See Source »

Some conservatives have already objected to Lear's politically correct God. The Rev. Donald Wildmon, the Fundamentalist media watchdog, has attacked CBS for allowing Lear to "promote his New Age/secular humanist religion." (Idle thought: Is Wildmon now on the payroll of liberal TV producers, who use him to attract controversy -- and viewers -- to their shows?) It's hard to imagine many others being offended by the sappy sermonizing. Sunday Dinner doesn't engage the issue of religious faith so much as gawk at it: belief in God has become a character quirk, like having a funny job or being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God Comes to Dinner | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

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