A tale of two conclaves: campus voices right and left.

From: The Nation | Date: December 12, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

Political conferences can be disorienting. At a meeting of an organization called the National Association of Scholars, for example, one does not expect to find advertisements for the Dix Gun Works catalogue, chocolate-chip cookies spectacular" Statue of Liberty tin ("the perfect gift") and a videocassette entitled "How to Raise Your Self-Esteem." Nor, at a left-wing gathering on anticommunism, does one anticipate hearing praise for the American press from a Communist journalist. But for all the surprises, these two recent conclaves went a long way toward illuminating the ...

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