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...anyone else--could possibly meet every possible objection; ideal Afro-American studies scholars may exist somewhere, but gathering them at Harvard will not occur overnight. These three seem the best hope for the department right now. We urge them to accept the appointments and ask the students to abandon ill-informed attacks...
...ABANDON HOPE, ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE. That legendary inscription over the gate of hell, as described in Dante's Inferno, appeared last week on a sign that New York Democrat Stephen Solarz posted at a meeting of the House Budget Committee. His point was to warn his fellow liberals that they have no chance of stopping a congressional drive to balance next year's budget, in part by cuts in Government social spending which the liberals find downright hellish...
...postrevolution Prime Minister, Mehdi Bazargan-who has neither forgiven nor forgotten. Beheshti endorsed the militants takeover of the U.S. embassy, and supports their refusal to turn the hostages over to the government. Once again, many Iranians believe, Beheshti is motivated less by ideology than by expediency and could well abandon the students if their cause seems lost. Observers note that Beheshti has never allowed the charter of his party to be published. Says one critic: "He does not want to commit himself to a rigid framework of action. He has to move with the tide. " And he adds: "We have...
CONSIDER A Midsummer Night's Dream as a gamut for the stage, a series of isometric exercises for a theater company. In its roughly 2000 lines--far shorter than a Hamlet or a Lear--are scenes of courtly reserve and natural abandon, metaphysical mystery and droll stupidity, gathered up and joined behind the proscenium of Shakespeare's florid verse. Where a play like Troilus and Cressida yokes different forms of theater violently together, Midsummer Night's Dream carefully weaves them in, under, and through each other--thus the shimmering, unsettled brilliance it displays in the hands of a good director...
Then we looked at each other, suddenly remembering that the Democrats have no living ex-President to run. But Featherless is not a man to abandon an idea simply because it is unworkable. "Look here," he said,' with an intensity that made me realize all was not lost, "what are the requirements for running for President...