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...surface, Glazer and Sowell seem to provide a much tougher challenge to affirmative action than the ax-to-grind arguments of the early 70's. But a closer look at their statistics, show that they are relatively hollow. For instance, if we are to believe Glazer's contention that the laissez-faire policy in practice was already benefitting all but a few educated blacks and women, then how do we explain that as late as 1968 in a supposedly liberal institution such as Harvard, there was not a single tenured black or woman professor on the Faculty of Arts...
...arrived from jail shackled as though she were an accused ax murderer. Her manacled hands were chained to a heavy belt that was buckled tightly around her slim waist. But by the time she walked into the crowded courtroom, the chains had been removed and she looked harmless and vulnerable. The rather wan, unsmiling young woman bore little resemblance to the gum-chewing, self-professed revolutionary with the giddy grin of bravado who was arrested last September. Now, at long last, she took her place on the witness stand and sat demurely, just as she had been taught years...
...trio of enormous canvases done 40 years later. The early work is of special historical interest. It illustrates Still's cubist affinities then-a painting like PH-591, which dates from 1936-37, with its sinuous line meandering among black planes, is like a Braque made with an ax-but it also shows the common root of interest in biomorphic and mythical imagery shared by Rothko, Newman and other abstract expressionists, out of which would grow Still's passion for the sublime...
...winter ball," the Instructional League for the 20 or so hottest prospects in the organization for extra practice and extra leverage with the powers that be. But the problem is more than this, involving the entire process of making one's way to the majors without getting the ax. You have to be noticed...
...brief subway snarl-up, HE'S BARISH ON AMERICA when a young stockbroker went streaking on Wall Street, and BOOLA BOOLA, MOOLA MOOLA over a story on the earning power of Yale graduates. Inside, however, much of the News these days is new. After decades of preoccupation with ax murders, "sexsational" divorce cases and other tabloid staples, the Noo Yawk News is going respectable...