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...monument in question is Thomas Ball's Emancipation. a bronze statue created in 1874. The huge artwork depicts a majestic President Abraham Lincoln, armed with his famous Proclamation, benevolent hand outstretched, in the act of liberating a barely clothed Black salve. The bondsman who humbly kneels before the Great Emancipator, his manacles finally broken, seems unable to comprehend his new found freedom and elevated social status. Local Black groups, offended by the paternalistic relationship implied by the statue, have asked that it be moved to an out-of-sight location...
...quality of the incumbents fallen off," as your piece asserts, or do officeholders just look worse because of television? No one can emerge from such scrutiny without appearing as human as the rest of us, not even a George Washington or an Abraham Lincoln...
...respondents believed that the computer revolution would enable more people to work at home. But only 31 % said they would prefer to do so themselves. Most work no longer involves a hay field, a coal mine or a sweatshop, but a field for social intercourse. Psychologist Abraham Maslow defined work as a hierarchy of functions: it first provides food and shelter, the basics, but then it offers security, friendship, "belongingness." This is not just a matter of trading gossip in the corridors; work itself, particularly in the information industries, requires the stimulation of personal contact in the exchange of ideas...
...present, only about 25,000 Israelis, mostly pioneers motivated by a desire to live in the ancient land of Abraham and Jacob, live on the West Bank, along with some 900,000 Palestinian Arabs. With the arrival of middle-class Israelis in search of cheap, uncrowded suburbs, the Israeli population in the occupied territory could double within two years. That is what the Israeli government has in mind, even though President Reagan, in his peace plan offered last September, specifically asked Israel to stop all new settlements until the status of the West Bank has been determined through negotiations...
...DIED. Abraham Pomerantz, 79, lawyer who pioneered suits by small shareholders against officials of such big organizations as McDonnell Douglas Corp. and the Dreyfus Fund; in New York City. Pomerantz specialized in so-called derivative suits, in which the company receives the award and passes it on to all stockholders. He was known for charging high fees and for sometimes representing the same companies whose stockholders he championed. "I love the buck," he once said. "I'm out to make it. But when it's a question of the rich against the poor...