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...assistant professor in the department who was denied tenure in 1975, has come to symbolize for many students and alumni this question of departmental focus. Isaacs is a Black Ethiopian scholar, who is challenging his tenure denial as discrimination, and part of a concerted effort of the department to root out Africanists. They say that the Isaacs case is a crucial opportunity to force the department to study the African side as well. A leader of the alumni committee has said that limiting Afro-Am's focus to events since the slaves arrived in America implies Blacks are a slave...
Novelist G K Chesterton once wrote, "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried. "So it is with the political doctrine that develops in Will's book Reagan rhetoric declares that government is the root at our woes and that government, as distinct from the people, must bear the brunt of the sacrifice necessary to restore this nation to prosperity, the populace need not suffer along the route to revival Will, however, disagrees...
Wright does tend sometimes to toss over his shoulder the wealth of material he sees. In "Old Bud," he writes, "His unbelievable Adam's apple purpled and honed like the burl on the root of a white oak, and he sang his God Damns in despair." Now you see it, now you' don't--the white oak disappears, and the central character. Old Bud, who does has the potential to run wild and become larger than the poem, twists into another image. In cases like these, the prose poem proves even more confining for Wright than the traditional form; everything...
...premises. The first is that federal pressure to increase the number of qualified minorities and women in academia had actually backfired. That contention may be correct, certainly federal codes mandating endless statistical reports and detailed procedures haven't done anything to streamline the Harvard bureaucracy. But at root it is a minor contention. No one would seriously suggest that the resources freed up by even the most drastic retrenchment in federal requirements actually will dramatically facilitate the hiring of women or minorities Reducing the "immense burden of paperwork" will make the lives of department chairmen and search committees more pleasant...
...fear of holocaust has taken root in the U.S., as exemplified in the numerous initiatives of the nuclear-freeze movement. It is as though the spotlight of public attention?and public anxiety?had finally focused on "the football," illuminating that curious, innocuous-looking fixture of the President's entourage. More intensely and skeptically than before, people are wondering about that briefcase, not so much what it contains as what it represents. Under what circumstances would the President actually call for it to be unlocked? And what would happen if the codes inside were actually unsealed and transmitted? And what then...