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...sensibility will no doubt go on for years, especially among the more politically committed women artists; and no doubt it will produce its abundant quota of bad, programmatic ideological illustration. No matter. The important thing is that the assumed imbalance of talent in the visual arts has begun to alter, and that Virginia Woolf s sadly true remark, " 'Anonymous' was a woman," may not describe the future...
...centrist political structure has normally excluded solutions to public problems which would significantly alter the distribution of power. But the mere act of shaking up that structure is not sufficient. Not every form of polarization is desirable. Wallace's victory is something neither to rejoice about, nor even cynically to snicker...
Although hardly dealing from strength, Coppola fought to get his budget doubled, shift the style to the period in which the book is set (late 1940s and early 1950s), and alter the whole conception of the film. "I saw important ideas in this book that had to do with dynasty and power," he says. "Puzo's screenplay had turned into a slick, contemporary gangster picture of no importance. It wasn't Puzo's fault. He just did what they told him to do." With Puzo's collaboration, Coppola rewrote the script along the broader lines...
...unadulterated good. Academic radicals support community organizing; Coles has talked to people in the communities and knows how firmly the existing order of things is ingrained in people and why change is difficult. In both examples he understands that "social policy" or "radicalization" is really an attempt to alter people's lives, and that the alterers had better understand--in human terms--what they are attempting...
...Gulf is a part of the bloodshed in Angola, Harvard is a part of Gulf. We support PALC's demand that Harvard use its stock leverage to alter Gulf's Angola policy. This would be a major victory, for Harvard has been a crucial pro-management voter in such corporate responsibility proxy fights as Campaign GM. We would propose that as a first demonstration of the concern for the welfare of Black Africans that Bok showed in his Thursday evening statement, he publicly commit Harvard to support for the United Church of Christ's proxy fight for full disclosure...