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...waving vaguely at “contemporary representations of beauty,” or straw-manning Ron and Harry, is far easier than starting a real debate about what role religion can play in the arts. So far, the church’s reaction to complex—if provocative??creative products like Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ” has generally been one of recoil; works of art that don’t aim to provoke have elicited no comment...
...October 2003 and December 2004, students complained about “sexually provocative?? phone calls made early in the morning by a “whispering” caller...
Summers’ most incendiary—nay, provocative??remarks often begin innocently enough with his favorite phrase, “It seems...
Rudenstine did these things with decency, grace, and an appreciation for the civility so essential to a university. In a 1992 commencement address, he warned against individuals who “have sometimes been deliberately provocative?? when discussing other members of the community. “We do need to recognize that each [person] has the potential to divide communities quite sharply,” he said. “Over time, patterns of behavior that are divisive or clearly disruptive can take a heavy toll.” Division, Rudenstine thought, was not the hallmark...
...dearth of female faculty in terms of biological differences between men and women, he got away relatively unscathed; while he received flack from the media, many people defended Summers for waging the good fight against political correctness and for spicing up the intellectual discourse with his “provocative?? insights...