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...things being equal, with no history of discrimination," Burger wrote, "it might well be desirable to assign pupils to schools nearest their homes. But all things are not equal in a system that has been deliberately constructed and maintained to enforce racial segregation. The remedy may be administratively awkward, inconvenient and even bizarre and may impose burdens on some; but all awkwardness and inconvenience cannot be avoided in the interim period when remedial adjustments are being made to eliminate the dual school systems." Noting that about 39% of U.S. schoolchildren have routinely been riding buses, Burger indicated that only when...
Among the several issues on which Muskie has sometimes made himself look awkward...
...brink of insanity as casually as another mother might pass the potatoes. But there is wit and laughter in her nastiness: Beatrice's rantings are too full-blooded to be taken all that seriously-and, when the chips are down, she is ready to support her daughters with awkward and unsentimental gestures of love. Happily Paul Zindel has written a play that is more about dignity than anything else, and in that lies Marigolds' very real distinction...
...choreography milked the ensembles for every laugh they contained, and Kenneth Kanter's stage direction was thoroughly inspired. Kanter has managed to maneuver the entire company of Iolanthe -dozens of lords and fairies, mortals and others-around the ludicrously small Agassiz stage without making the entire company look awkward. His actors are thoroughly rehearsed and, with few exceptions, completely in character...
...addition, "the criterion seeks to make a judgment of political ideas," Kreisberg wrote. "It should seem clear that any test programmed to uncover a possible potential to violate the Resolution of Rights and Responsibilities is an awkward and transparent disguise really intended to determine and judge the student's political and moral ideas...