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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: Existence
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Date: 9 Dec 91 22:12:19 GMT
References: <1991Dec6.165648.6234@husc3.harvard.edu> <1991Dec6.204854.2218@arizona.edu> <1991Dec7.070815.6257@husc3.harvard.edu> <1991Dec7.190338.2203@Princeton.EDU>
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In article <1991Dec7.190338.2203@Princeton.EDU> egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges) writes:
>This is fascinating, for it mirrors a larger ossification of a
>midcentury liberal state (exemplified in pre-1966 America and pre-
>1967 Israel) that in dialog with Naziism "had history on its side"
>but now (in dialog, again, with figures so disparate as Palestinian
>teenagers and Professor Anita Hill) is indeed a valley of dry bones.
>For further reading, see Lewis H. Lapham's excellent column in this
>month's Harper's.

Yes, let's just drop all this democracy and bill of rights stuff.
What use a valley of dry bones?


