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Goodness, what a serious matter. Unless college can deliver a better pay-out, liberal education is bound to suffer the fate of other respectable but low-return activities like religion, love and honesty. Parents will stop investing in their children's education and shift to soybean futures. Students will abandon college classrooms for brokerage offices. Professors of economics will have to go to work...
What a loopy enterprise Network is! The production is designed, directed and acted with earnest, not to say dogged realism. The audience is asked to believe that people working inside the television oligopoly scheme to advance their corporate positions with such melodramatic abandon that their behavior constitutes not just an affront to traditional moral standards but clear and present danger to democratic society. Yet the plot that Paddy Chayefsky has concocted to prove this point is so crazily preposterous that even in post-Watergate America-where we know that bats can get loose in the corridors of power...
Thus, the Palestinian issue remains alive and important. There are Palestinians all over the world with large communities in several Arab countries, Israeli-occupied territories, and in Israel proper behind the so-called green line. They are not about to disappear and abandon their sense of national identity and their longing for a homeland. They will continue to struggle in order to win the right to self-determination. The main spokesman for this nationalist drive is the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), recognized by nearly every nation in the world as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people...
...work was drastically revised by the mature Brahms, and despite its early opus number, its introspective intensity makes it an extraordinarily difficult work to interpret. But Chang, Kogan, and Ma (upon whom the trio now seems to be less visibly dependent for direction whirled through the work with abandon and brilliance. If anything, the second movement scherzo crept to the edge of brittleness; yet the sustained, almost religious adagio which followed was lyrically breathtaking...
...very hard to bring themselves up in the world, and to express the enormous gratitude they must feel. But somewhere in the sixties, things began to change. Universities in general were in upheaval, and Black students in particular were dissatisfied and rebellious. Somewhere along the line, minority students had abandoned their trust in their statistical value, and when they did, they found themselves in a kind of descriptional twilight zone. Many rejected the pat definitions applied to them by admissions offices and sociologists, but few actually articulated the essence of their own identity. Slowly and often painfully they began...