"Ricky Silberman, 1937-2007"
Scrapbook Ricky Silberman, 1937-2007 We were saddened to learn of the death last week of Ricky Silberman, after a long and valiant struggle with cancer. Rosalie Gaull Silberman, Smith ’58,...
...The word wanted in that last line—to describe a welfare state that was based on thieving and murder—is immoral...
...Our colleague Jonathan V. Last noted the other day over at the indispensable WorldwideStandard blog (weeklystandard.com) that the city of Calcutta is no more, at least as far as the U.S...
...government is concerned...
...Your guess is as good as The Scrapbook’s.] people gathered daily for incisive panels . . . and for informal group talks, involving straights and gays alike, leaning into discussion circles to hear about safe, hot sex...
...According to Nexis, immoral still outnumbers amoral by more than two to one in Times pieces (and of course some writers do use the words precisely...
...We were reading with interest an excellent review of G?tz Aly’s book Hitler’s Beneficiaries in the Feb...
...And like her family, friends, colleagues, prot?g?s, and the countless beneficiaries of her energy and wisdom, The Scrapbook will miss this beloved and remarkable woman...
...Walls Against Diversity Must Fall, Officials Say,” Washington Post, Feb...
...Not so, reports Alisa Solomon in the March 5 issue of the Nation...
...Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the mother of three, and a lively and charming presence in political Washington for four decades...
...Is the word immoral being replaced by the word amoral among the whateverwedo-let’s-not-be-judgmental elite...
...The Q-Spot buzzed with the same sort of revolutionary energy as the Via Campensina meeting [which ostensibly dealt with “food security and agricultural reform”]: cohorts finding each other and making fast friends and common cause—whether over corn cultivation or condom distribution...
...Chinese atlases show England’s great university city as Niujin, with no hint that we locals actually pronounce it ‘Oxford.’ And I have no doubt the Hottentots still call my own people what they have always called them—probably ‘white devils.’” ? Hollywood Perfidy Shocking news from the Feb...
...It was the Supreme Court nomination of her fellow EEOC commissioner Clarence Thomas that pushed her decisively into action...
...Citizens were sated with decent wages, generous overtime pay and innovative pension plans—that is, through the establishment of a complex, if absolutely amoral, welfare state...
...22 And Then the Grammar Police Arrested Him for Elicitation Maryland Gov...
...Are there no depths to which the poo-bahs of the motion picture industry will not stoop...
...We were concerned that those who would speak for American women were neither telling the truth about Clarence Thomas nor making sense with respect to issues of crucial importance to American women,” she said later...
...18 New York Times Book Review when we came across this passage: Aly’s book “argues that nothing more than an unremarkable pursuit of self-interest led most Germans to pledge allegiance to the Nazi regime...
...We defer to the wisdom of John Derbyshire, who wrote memorably on the subject of the “onomastic cringe” in these pages some years ago: “The need to call peoples and places by their local names is entirely a figment of the Anglo-Saxon liberal imagination—yet another aspect of the absurd cultural cringing our civilization has gone in for this past 30 years...
...As a founder and longtime chairman of the Independent Women’s Forum, she was determined to change the terms of debate about women from, as she put it, “the fallacies and hypocrisies of radical political interest group feminism”—and she succeeded, perhaps beyond her expectations...
...Consulate General Kolkata...
...All of us owe a debt of gratitude to Ricky Silberman...
...What some of the pieces we’re seeing, that are being written about Barack Obama are saying, they’re trying to reach a very lofty theme: That this guy is incongruent...
...As a Reagan appointee to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the fearless director of its Office of Congressional Compliance, and a member of the Pentagon’s Advisory Commission on the Status of Women, Ricky Silberman probably exerted as much influence as anyone in the past quarter-century on the role of women in American society, in the workplace, and the law...
...But she was much more than a vivid personality and loyal friend...
...Uh, no...
...But the paper’s pages are littered with phrases like “amoral killer,” “amoral violence,” and “amoral young thief”—many of which should properly be immoral...
...Au contraire: Every Times reader knows by now that our existing health care system is unjust and immoral...
...22 Los Angeles Times, which rips aside countless layers of Hollywood hypocrisy with this latest revelation: “Karen Baldwin, executive producer of the 2005 film Sahara, testified that a former top executive at Paramount Pictures deliberately misled [novelist Clive] Cussler by saying that the studio ‘loved’ his screenplay when it did not...
...Beats us...
...Obama Messiah Watch “As you know, I don’t do opinions...
...This reflects a change of standard name use adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names...
...Then there is the claim that it is “amoral to deny people access to health care because they are poor...
...Martin O’Malley “opened his remarks with a few jokes that solicited laughs from the predominantly African American audience...
...They wanted to set aside money for retirement...
...The beneficiaries of this consideration, however, do not reciprocate...
...The Amoralization of America...
...Oh, Kolkata...
...Scrapbook Ricky Silberman, 1937-2007 We were saddened to learn of the death last week of Ricky Silberman, after a long and valiant struggle with cancer...
...Sure looks that way...
...Rosalie Gaull Silberman, Smith ’58, was the wife of Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S...
...Current Trends in Marxism And you probably thought the World Social Forum still featured tedious discussions of North, South, and the dialectical relations between rich and poor...
...On January 24, the State Department issued a decree: “Effective immediately, the official designation of the U.S...
...GALCK hosted a tent called the Q-Spot, where hundreds of LGBTI [I...
...Germans wanted their children to have nice Christmas gifts...
...You can’t include him with the rest of the argument because what he’s got we haven’t seen—what he’s got died in Dallas, Texas, on a November day in 1963...
...This year’s gathering of global lefties, held in Nairobi, Kenya, was the coming-out party for the collective force of African social movements— and quite literally for the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya...
...The board’s change, in turn, reflects the Bengali pronunciation of the city’s name—and hence will fall trippingly from the tongues of the 100,000 or so Bengalis in this country and be incomprehensible for years to come for the other 300 million of us (see Beijing, Peking...
...We listened to the spin of those days—the litany that women are victims and men just don’t get it —and decided that those woebegone women did not speak for us, nor did we think that they spoke for the vast majority of American women...
...They wanted to send a special someone back home a pretty sweater from Holland or perfumed soap from France...
...We rest our case...
...Consulate General Calcutta is changed to U.S...
...NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams “reports” on “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” Feb...
Vol. 12 • February 2007 • No. 24
