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...would bolster Bush's call for a New World Order grounded in morality, sovereignty and respect for international law. But it would threaten the post-Cold War detente Bush deems necessary for post-Gulf War cooperation. He'd rather deal with a satisfied Soviet Empire than an angry, revisionist Russia--not to mention a slew of ethnically divided, nationalistic republics...
...innocence of the idealism of cross-casting, especially in American society today, is misleading. Cross-casting is inherently a political act, theater's own brand of revisionist history. If we locate drama in its proper place in the canon of Western literature, we are forced to acknowledge its bias toward European males. In the past, drama has scripted few if any roles for minorities and few full or flattering roles for women. And as most high-school English teachers will tell you, even the roles written for women were until recently played by men. So in a progressive world...
...pendulum has swung. In some quarters nowadays, the name of the man who sailed the ocean blue in 1492 is a downright dirty word. Russell Means, the Native American activist, says the explorer "makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent." In a new revisionist biography, The Conquest of Paradise (Knopf; $24.95), author and environmentalist Kirkpatrick Sale portrays Cristobal Colon (to name Columbus correctly) as a grasping fortune hunter, a mediocre sailor and an incompetent governor of Spain's New World colonies, whose legacy to the Indians he "discovered" was rapine, servitude and death...
BUFFALO GIRLS by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster; $19.95). Calamity Jane joins Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in another wistful novel by an author who, almost single-handedly, keeps the legendary West alive in an age of revisionist historians...
...reply, revisionist researchers argue that their work offers a way to liberate women and transform society. If women's approach to life is acknowledged as authentic, they will no longer need to act like men. "What we are doing is more revolutionary than early feminism," declares psychologist Judith Jordan, co-founder of the women's studies program at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. "We believe that the culture, which has been one of power, objectification and violence, has to change. Women's sensitivity to relationship offers a special gift in making that occur...