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...gallery contains a skylight and isdesigned in a neo-classical style, with a centralarea surrounded by columns, Shutler said...
...complains. "It seems sort of self-serving and superficially felt. It seems to me that isms, including Magical Realism and Minimalism, are all honorable alternatives to being realistic." Updike is echoed by fellow novelist John Barth, whom Wolfe calls "the peerless leader" of the retreat from realism for his "neo- fabulist" style. Barth says Wolfe's manifesto "is much too narrow a view. I see the feast of literature as truly a smorgasbord. I wouldn't want a world in which there were only Balzac and Zola and not Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka. The idea that because we live...
...never overwhelming its campus. "We're on the short list for a new building at Yale," says Eisenman, the contextualist-come-lately. The location, he says nonchalantly, as if he had not spent the past 20 years ranting against any hint of historical style, "seems to call for a neo-Georgian classical box or something." Kinder and gentler, indeed...
...exempt ROTC from this particular policy, saying it applies only to "social organizations," shouldn't Harvard be encouraging the "time-to-time" campus activity of other political or governmental groups? If Harvard students are involved, should we fail to officially sanction the voices of the Ku Klux Klan, of neo-Nazi groups, of McCarthy-like Communist scares? The answer to these questions is obvious. No! We cannot allow this type of behavior to be expressed on our campus. It is a direct attack on the human dignity accorded to all members of the Harvard community...
...violent Klan members or neo-Nazi paramilitary organizations in Idaho. The group that has warranted the surveillance of FBI agents across the United States is librarians. That's right, librarians, the quiet old people who "Shhh!" you and give you dirty looks when you eat Doritos in the stacks...