Word: bradford
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...WILL, Bradford...
...policy, insisting, "The court has accepted the general position of this Administration that racial preferences are not a good thing to have. What they have done is carve out various exceptions to that general rule, even while affirming the rule itself." The Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, William Bradford Reynolds, who has led the Administration's charge against the perceived reverse discrimination of affirmative action, said there would not be "any change at all" in the Justice Department's enforcement of civil rights...
...major cases on the subject to decide by July, one involving fire-department promotions in Cleveland, the other the imposition of a minority-membership goal on a New York City union. Last week's decision would seem to bode well for those and other affirmative-action schemes. But William Bradford Reynolds, the combative Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, insisted that he could still hear the Justices playing his tune. Because they had required a showing of prior discrimination before the use of racial preferences, Reynolds now contends that a 1965 presidential order authorizing minority employment goals for Government contractors...
SEVERAL PROBLEMS MAR Bradford's approach to the text. Why, for instance, has he not cut the distracting subplots often excluded in contemporary productions--such as the hackneyed drinking scenes between Caliban and minor characters Trinculo and Stephano, or the awkwardly staged scene in which the goddesses Iris, Ceres and Juno appear? These types of passages have little charm and distract the audience from the more important issues of the play. Bradford could have populated his huge stage in other ways...
Fidelity to the text is indeed the trademark of this Tempest, but it makes the play too slow and too long. Shakespeare's shortest play should be enchanting, like one of Prospero's spells; as it is, Bradford's production seems longer than its lengthy three hour running time. The problem is compounded by the fact that the actors speak their lines very slowly, as if too reverent of Shakespeare's poetry...