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...capstone state university. There are only seven full-time undergraduate black professors; Meredith himself says he is reluctant now to praise an institution with so few black teachers and students. Money is one problem, and black professors and administrators are often lost to larger schools. The rural backdrop is another, as is the absence of a sizable middle-class black community. The Black Student Union and the Associated Student Body have recently merged. But the pervasive sorority and fraternity systems remain segregated; the blacks have their own chapters...
...grim backdrop of worrisome economic developments around the world led the U.S. to soften its initially tough stand and agree to speed up the timetable for reaching an accord on the amount each member should contribute. Also the U.S. launched a drive to set up a new "crisis fund" to be tapped in times of real emergency. Most key members seemed responsive to the proposal, which is, for now at least, still largely in the talking stage...
...down-and-out dad, the savvy offspring and the car trip through the South, all set against the dusty backdrop of the Great Depression-it worked for Ryan and Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon, why not for Clint Eastwood, 52, and his son Kyle, 14? In Honky Tonk Man, opening at Christmas, Eastwood plays an itinerant musician heading cross country to try for a shot at the Grand Ole Opry. "Kyle plays my nephew in the film," says he. "I demoted him from son, but he's still enjoying it." So apparently is the star. Eastwood plays...
There could not be a more perfect setting for A Midsummer Night's Dream than the New York Shakespeare Festival's open-air theater in Central Park. The scenery takes full advantage of the fact that there is a real lake for a backdrop and real stars are a twinkle in God's Own Cyclorama. The greens that fill the stage are genuine trees, shrubs and grass, implanted on a gently rolling surface that could not be more naturalistic if someone had dug up a wood near Athens and shipped it to Manhattan C.O.D. Unlike the more...
Gergen spends much time devising visual backdrops for Reagan appearances. Outlined against the U.S. Capitol dome, Reagan proclaims his support of a balanced-budget constitutional amendment. In St. Louis his backdrop is grinning black children. Last week Reagan tried waging diplomacy by camera. White House spokesmen pointedly referred newsmen to how unsmiling the President was in greeting Israel's Foreign Minister Shamir. If this was meant to signal a new kind of diplomatic rebuff, it didn't overwhelm the Israelis, who went on bombing Beirut...