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Social Issues. The Reagan recovery has not been universal. According to several studies the gap between rich and poor, black and white, is growing. This societal wound could create a dangerous polarization betwen classes and races. Reagan has talked vaguely about helping the poor catch up, but he has cut back on antipoverty programs and affirmative action. Congress has so far rejected his plan to create "enterprise zones" to draw business into depressed areas with tax breaks and other incentives. Reagan is not likely to suggest much else to help the left-behind in a second term unless Congress makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: A Preview of the Reagan Revolution, Part Two | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...those electric lint brushes, Dallas' industrious writers have picked up a little fuzz from most of their betters, all of their equals, and one or two of their inferiors. Whir, buzz. Here's a thread from Shakespeare's voluminous mantle: that old blood feud betwen the Montagues and the Capulets, or, in this case, the Ewings and the Barneses. Hum, grind. There's half of Tennessee Williams' back pocket. Can't you hear that cat scratching on the hot tin roof over Big Daddy's bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Big House on the Prairie | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...difficult piece of direction, to keep the constantly active inmates from stealing the audience's attention, but Konrad manages it with grace. His lunatics are rather more rambunctious than those in most productions, sometimes treading a thin line betwen serious insanity and clowning. They move around David Moore's beautifully designed set--a series of planks and platforms that suggest the structure of the asylum without distracting--rather like fish in an aquarium, only occasionally giving a hint that it is all carefully choreographed. The inmates are engaging, as Weiss meant them to be; by the end of the show...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Political Asylum | 11/5/1977 | See Source »

Although there is no formal connection betwen the Business School and the Wits. project, informal links are strong. Besides Archer's trip next week, Schlesinger's gift, and possible Harvard faculty visits in the future, Wits.' Principal (President) I.D. MacCrone visited here in October studying the Business School's procedures and some Wits. faculty members will be trained here...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Business School Profs Aid S. African Project | 4/21/1964 | See Source »

More than half an hour before the sentencing, the courtroom--which holds around 300--was filled, and betwen 75-100 persons had to be turned away. They were diverted by a pacifist-anarchist who emerged from the courthouse a few minutes after the sentencing began, announcing that "it took three policemen to carry me out. I went limp in the elevator...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Court Sentences Seeger for Year On Contempt of Congress Charges | 4/10/1961 | See Source »

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