Word: bane
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...hard core of aides and Cabinet officers who surround him, Reagan would be helpless. But he must know that, because the Meeses and Bakers and Deavers and Stockmans and Gergens and Regans and Weinbergers are in place and in tune. The structure and function of this group are the bane of scholars who wrote that such personal Government would not work. It works for Reagan, who in meeting after meeting serves no other purpose than to push his reluctant Government...
...learn about the pupils, counselors interview them apart from parents. They often give achievement and psychological tests as well. After several visits, counselors suggest four or five schools that might be helpful. A small, not-too-competitive school for a middling athlete, for example. And for that bane of parents and teachers alike, the high-IQ underachiever, a school with strong discipline and a challenging academic program. The counselors often telephone a school, describe the student and ask whether he or she sounds desirable enough to justify formal application. "We try to be a strainer," says Parsons, adding: "Year after...
...weaknesses in the play itself. Peter Stein has directed with a great deal of thought; and in some respects, he has presented the show as a series of miniatures complete in themselves, maintaining a flow while allowing each scene with its own vacillating emotions. The elaborate denouement, always the bane of this play, and most often done as some sort of grand processional, is handled masterfully, Stein allowing the Duke's flair to carry the audience along. It is strangely exhilarating, yet maintains a gnawing sense of blackness and futility. The note is sounded, but the emphasis left...
Despite this uninspiring performance, the school will almost certainly secure the Department of Labor's blessing. Administrator's grudging steps in the last months--increasing its employment advertising, seating a handful of students on admissions committees, and hiring its first woman associate professor (Mary Jo Bane) and four low-level minority instructors--will likely satisfy the department's "goodfaith" requirement...
Admirable as these moves are, they can only be first steps. Even with the hiring of Mary Jo Bane, the school still will have no tenured women or minorities. And this year's graduating class from its Master of Public Policy program boasts only two minorities among its 60 students. Those are startling statistics about an institution that aims to staff government posts that themselves increasingly deal with affirmative action questions...