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...fact, this is one of the most powerful and subtle tools Piercy uses to shape her heroine, who otherwise would be a very ordinary woman. But Daria's constant need for things to be in their place, for details to be correct and manageable and solid, betray her very fragile sense of self, her modernist need to be in control of the little things. In its better moments, this characterization is reminiscent of Mrs. Dalloway in its emphasis on the details that no one else would need to notice, that seem to take on mythic proportions in such an acutely...
...currently investigating the policy of linkage, which would force commercial developers to build a certain amount of housing for each office complex they erect. The second committee will keep an eye on the actions of the Cambridge police, who faced several allegations of racial discrimination this spring. Both votes betray the traditional conservative support of business and the autonomy of city institutions...
Nevertheless, murmurs among some group members betray a harslier view of Harvard's Black hiring record. Some hint that it was the University "foot dragging" that spurred them to action, and the principal success of the group that many members cite privately is the shift of discussion on affirmative action from the realm of governmentally imposed technicalities to that of pragmatic planning...
...faculty dating from the New Deal era set the stage for potential conflicts, but the first serious test case came in the 1950s with the rise of McCarthyism. Then, Harvard was forced to defend political actions on the part of some of its faculty lest its silence tacitly betray them. Time and some thoughtful action resolved the immediate crisis during that Cold War era, but the issue of University tolerance of faculty activism remains both relevant and divisive...
...Hobbs, a ballplayer possessed of a talent and an innocence that could only have their sources in the supernatural. In Malamud's baseball world, like Malory's Arthurian one, men are ever the victims; it is women who have the power to make them betray their best selves as well as the ability to inspire them to redemptive glory. In Roy's case, all unknowing on the eve of his big league tryout, he answers a mysterious woman's summons to her hotel room where she shoots him (with a silver bullet, no less...