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...discriminating against blacks. As Carter acknowledged last week, the U.S. has denied visas to admitted Communists-a violation of the Helsinki agreement. At White House direction, the State Department is already studying possible revisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. Nor has Western Europe been blameless. Restrictions on political activity still prevail in Spain. Britain has admitted extensive violations of human rights in jailing dissidents in Northern Ireland...
...having acknowledged the fact, Bok passes on, as if the number of black and Spanish surname Ph.D.'s was an act of God beyond the control of the blameless universities. Affirmative action law recognizing that discrimination at one rung of the ladder affected hiring at all higher rungs applied rules to student admissions as well as to faculty hiring...
...Ibsen's world, the legacy of past generations is not knowledge but blameless suffering. This series of revelations leads not to a liberated consciousness but to a tortured tangle of frustrated desire, mental illness, incest and guilt. Self-awareness frees characters from societal ghosts but plunges them deeper into their own personal nightmares...
There are painters who carry their childhood experience all their lives. It forms the genetic code, the inescapable structure, of their work. Constable was one. He was born in Suffolk, where his father owned water mills on the River Stour. He lived a life of blameless bourgeois obscurity, alternating between London and the Suffolk countryside with his wife Maria Bicknell, who bore him seven children. At 45, he wrote to a friend: "The sound of water escaping from Mill dams ... willows, Old rotten Banks, slimy posts, & brickwork. I love such things ... I should paint my own places best-Painting...
...handled by his contemporary. Second Lieut. Arthur Drake (Michael York), who figures his client is guilty but cannot quite allow himself to go along with the military court's charade of justice. A good thing, too, be cause there is an increasingly likely chance that Millington is blameless...