Word: propounds
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What--any professor might ask if Kilson's letter were a student's paper--does this cryptic sentence mean? Calling neo-racism a twisted-neurotic virus, while vivid, leaves the term undefined. Its essential difference from old-racism evidently has to do with those who propound it, namely "white-ethnic newcomers to the middle class." Could the reference be to Jews (like Joseph) and Catholics (like...
...CHARGES of "Tomming" continue to be levelled against Blacks who propound conservative ideas. Williams, for instance, says he and the other conservatives suffer "a lot of ostracizing" by other Black academics. Indiana Law School Professor John T. Baker's last minute decision not to testify in favor of Robert H. Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court also suggests that the broadening of debate Kilson senses has not come about...
...sending him to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938 and later to Dachau. After the war's end, Niemöller worked to rebuild the Protestant Church in Germany, and served as co-president of the World Council of Churches from 1961 to 1968. He continued to propound controversial views, arguing that Germans must bear collective guilt for World War II, defending pacifism resolutely and opposing many of the West's anti-Communist policies, including U.S. involvement in Viet...
Education's failing in this respect, says Giamatti has been to propound the notion of research "free of values...a world where ideas are...freeze-dried commodities." He continues, "Our problem as a society is that we have fostered disconnectedness: we have created a false separateness between social research and policy making, thinking and politics, ideas and power." Giamatti's sole obsession in these essays--aside from a peculiar affinity to the word "assert," which he uses about once per page--seems to be the importance of education in developing a sense of citizenship. Referring to Plato's Statesman...