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- NATION, Page 25American NotesHYPOCRISYMaitre and Morality
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- When Dean H. Joachim Maitre delivered his commencement speech
- at Boston University's College of Communication in May, he chose
- as his theme the decline of morality in American culture. He cited
- several sexually explicit and violent scenes in the movie The
- Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover and said, "The politically
- correct, properly liberal notion is -- liberal in the sense of
- having no standards -- is that we should never dig deeper to
- consider whether a given work is true."
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- Or original, apparently. Last week the Boston Globe
- charged that 15 passages in Maitre's speech had been lifted
- almost word for word from an article by Michael Medved, a PBS
- film critic, published in a scholarly journal called Imprimis
- last February. But Medved said Maitre called to apologize. "He
- acknowledged that he had made a terrible mistake," said Medved.
- "He was full of chagrin and regret." Stay tuned for the sequel.
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