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...show either houses or no significant gains (Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Boston, Riversides). In every city studied busing failed to reduce the gap between black and white achievement. In fact most cities reported that the achievement gap had grown even larger after busing. Scholars who have reviewed the evidence, including Armor, Bell, Edmonds, Giazer, and St. John, have concluded that using had little if any effect on the academic achievement of either black or white children. Thus, the most recent sociological evidence falls to confirm a basic premise underlying the rationale for court-ordered busing, i.e. that it will positively effect...
...more fantastical stewpot of sights for bored eyes. The tornado that sweeps Dorothy to Oz is a dancer whose headgear spouts 100 yards of black silk swirling to the rafters. The Yellow Brick Road is a quartet of lanky dudes in brilliant yellow brick-patterned tailcoats. An armor of beer cans and garbage cans makes the Tin Man. Originally scheduled not only to direct and costume the show but to do the choreography and play the Wiz as well, Holder had canceled out when he encountered "difficulties" with the management. The real problem, he says, was that "they began...
Also changed is the mode of warfare. No longer is it a contest of small units using land mines and rifle squads. Today regiments and full divisions supported by armor and artillery are pitted against one another in all-out conventional warfare. It is the Communists who are on the offensive. "The North Vietnamese divisions today," remarked a European diplomat in Saigon, "remind me of good World War II armies tearing toward Berlin...
Eliav's views to a large extent are rejected by hawks like former General Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, the Israeli Patton who turned a 1973 setback in the Sinai into victory by rolling his armor across the Suez Canal. He says, "We must explain to the Arabs what is vital to us and make them an offer on a take-it-or-leave-it basis." He would acknowledge Egypt's sovereign right to the Sinai, for instance, but would insist upon a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces over a 20-year period. He would annex the West Bank...
...Rossini for contralto, but later rescored for tenor in deference to the historic Parisian insistence that men are men and women are women. Today, the role could be sung by either tenor or contralto. The female version is more elaborate, and Conductor Schippers prefers it. Decked out in armor and an elegant Zachary Scott mustache, Verrett moved enough like a man to make the impersonation halfway acceptable. Hers is not a warm voice, but it is clear and brilliant. Dramatic coloratura lines spun out in the third act's "Non temer" brought Verrett a three-minute ovation...