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...important to remember that the Klan is only the tip of the iceberg, the most visible and obvious manifestation of the entrenched racism in our society." The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, as well as the Administration and the A.F.T., have publicly challenged this blanket indictment of U.S. society...
...someone would come forward and want their name put on it, but that hasn't happened." Reardon cites problems with the filtering system for the 50-year-old building's pool and rotting wood on the windows as areas needing attention. The department also plans to install an insulating blanket over the swimming pool to reduce the building's excessive humidity. "It's so humid that now if you paint anything in there it peals off," Reardon says. Anderson says the department would like to refurbish the entire building, but because of financial restraints, "we're looking at it with...
...Inter-Faith Center, for example, a largely Roman Catholic organization, a blanket call for divestiture has been rejected as too extreme. The group instead works for a platform in opposition to bank loans to South Africa, new investment in the country, sales to the military or police forces of South Africa, and Krugerrand sales in this country. Krugerrands are gold coins minted by the South African government...
...Albert Carnesale, Paul Doty, Stanley Hoffmann, Samael P. Hantington and Josheph S. Nye Jr, and graduate student Scott D. Sagan--tick off their views (and occasionally their differences) on any number of timely strategic issues. Most notably, they back the deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe, oppose a blanket "no first use" policy, and split on the construction of the MX missile. They also urge a partial nuclear freeze, oppose the B-1 bomber, and expose developing anti-ballistic weapons that could violate the 1972 SALTI accord...
...more than make up for Goldman's glibness, as when he writes off the "world view" of the top-name directors he's worked with in one all-caps assault: "THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF WHAT THEY HAVE TO 'SAY' CANNOT COVER THE BOTTOM OF EVEN A SMALL TEACUP." This blanket statement unravels in the book's last section, in which Goldman describes trying to rewrite his old short story "Da Vinci" as a screenplay and handing it to a respected editor, cinematographer, composer, designer, and director for comments. Not only does the director, George Roy Hill, have a cupful...