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Mansfield'sand Murray's New Right perspective on affirmative action is also ill-informed about the American political process. For one thing, practices akin to affirmative action are not without precedent, past and present, in American social and political patterns. These might be called defacto affirmative action. Sometimes these practices--practices that modify and circumvent the so-called natural forces of the market place--are political, and at other times they take the form of "social power" and are thus covert or informally political. Since the Civil War, politics in American counties, cities, states and at the federal level have...
...Express and Fame, Director Parker oversentimentalized innocence and oversensationalized the cruelty of the world that oppresses it. Not so in Birdy. Working from a lively adaptation of William Wharton's admired 1978 novel, he has achieved his personal best. He has turned an ordinarily bleak Philadelphia location into something akin to the Prince of Darkness's castle. He has made his principal character, who might have been just another teen angel, into a complex figure, comical and a little dangerous. He has, finally, transcended realism without traducing it. His movie does what Birdy himself can never quite manage. It defies...
...calamity. After all, a novel that speaks in a quiet adult voice, and that proceeds from delicate ironies to the contemplation of metaphysical mysteries, is not your customary movie property. That Lean has brought this essentially schizoid work to the screen with such sureness, elegance and hypnotic force is akin to a miracle...
...Marie. Protectress mine. Thou standest by me and I'll be thine." And within the bizarre tale of Marie's adventures, Hoffmann revels in the sweetness and sensitivity of kind and imaginative children. His careful touch in relating the wonders of things as majestic as first love is something akin to a perfectly crafted music boy issuing soft strains of Mozart...
CHOOSING COURSES is something akin to choosing mates: everyone seems to have some advice--some good, some bad, some thoughtful, some absurd--but no one has to live with the results besides yourself. For undergraduates, and particularly for freshmen, selection can be hazardous indeed but is made somwhat easier by the publication of the University CUE Guide. This year the Committee on Undergraduate Education that funds the Guide should avoid making changes that will damn it into statistically suffocating platitudes in the name of objectivity...