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Hollywood, however, and whatever the French equivalent of the silver screen is called, prefer to adopt a new male for women to turn to, rather than a new woman who has something of their own to offer. Fonda and Clayburgh are really in search of new men, not new lives. And Girardot is so charmingly obsessed with her career that it is difficult to see her as anything but a female detective. They are all uninspiring people, leaving you sitting in your seat, as the lights come back on, feeling depressed and ashamed. You long for Laren Bacall's cool...
...would be comforting if it were safe to adopt a humorous tolerance toward even the most heinous ideas and their proponents. Unfortunately, there must always be a "watch on the Rhine," whether it be in Europe or on the shores of Lake Michigan...
...report, the ACSR did little more than present the alternatives the Corporation may choose to adopt in dealing with portfolio companies operating in South Africa. It made recommendations that fall far short of any reasonable, justifiable stand against companies supporting apartheid, focussing on the support U.S. firms give the apartheid system through the labor practices they employ in South Africa. While racist labor policies certainly constitute a significant aspect of American corporate complicity in apartheid, they divert attention from the larger issues of U.S. corporate involvement...
...Africa be judged against such guidelines on an individual basis. This crucial evaluation is therefore to be carried out by non-existent staff with non-existent resources employing non-existent criteria. The report amounted to little more than an abdication of responsibility by the ACSR, freeing the Corporation to adopt any course of action it desired...
...have gone into this very carefully can see the virtues of this," he says, and praises CUE and ERG members for working so closely with the Faculty Council and the summer groups when the Core plan was being formulated. That close cooperation resulted in the Faculty's decision to adopt virtually all of the amendments CUE suggested--including the so-called "by-pass" and "floater" amendments--and demonstrated, Rosovsky believes, that the channels of communication between students and faculty are still very much open...