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...daresay it would be both presumptuous and callous of, say, Protestants at Notre Dame University, Methodists at Augustana College (Lutheran), Mormons at Furman University (Baptist), Gentiles at Brandeis University (Jewish), or Jews at Harvard to insist that securing these groups' presence in universities of different cultural origins and distinctiveness required the latter's extinction. Thus, in the model of American pluralism, as Notre Dame adjusted over time to this model its Catholic leadership is required only to surrender its nativist phobia--its fear that having Protestants, Jews, Muslims, etc. among us will destroy us, deny our cultural distinctiveness...
Perhaps Bronson vehicle and quality are no longer a contradiction in terms. This summer's Breakout, a diverting prisonbreak yarn, showed the usually saturnine star cracking jokes, playing big, generally and infectiously enjoying himself. In Hard Times, Bronson's role is closer to his customary image: the callous, uncommunicative loner. When this sort of projection does not work (The Stone Killer, Death Wish), Bronson is a Goliath who could be toppled by leprechauns. This time, however, the stolid performer manages to achieve an authentic, scruffy street dignity...
...Your're callous, Mr. Secretary. You people just don't care if some teachers out there get laid off and lose their savings, but if Chase Manhattan's portfolio starts sinking, the next thing we'll hear is Arthur Burns yelling, 'Part the waters, boys, I'm coming through...
...statement that the U.S. Army is still testing hallucinogenic drugs and alcohol "but only with animals" [Aug. 4] reveals a callous attitude. Without animals, most of mankind would perish. Using them for experimental purposes is immoral, unethical and a shameful blot on the uncivilized world of today...
...Callous Rejection. Despite its cotton-candy quality of diplomatic ambiguity, the document has been harshly condemned by some American political conservatives, as well as by leading dissident Soviet critics of détente (see story page 23), as a capitulation by the West to Soviet power diplomacy and a callous rejection of the cause of freedom in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In addition to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's jeremiads, Senator Henry Jackson accuses Ford of fostering "the illusion that substantive progress toward greater security in Europe has been made." As for the issue of Russian rule over...