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...active in precisely those safe areas which have been already laid out by men and male attitudes. Like blacks, we must behave like the dominant group in order to be accepted by them, and at the same time cater to their assumptions of our inherent weakness and inferiority (this extends to the sub-societies of radical political movements, and the editorial board of the Harvard CRIMSON...
...great deal for sitar music, but they knew nothing about it," Mirza told me last week. "They exploited it for the pop mania. There has been a great sinking of Indian music in the United States during the last year because of its commercialization and exploitation. Trying to cater to all tastes like a very bad cook has been responsible for its demise from interest...
...makeup, props, lighting effects, music, scenery, a conventional stage. He even strips away a good part of the audience, never allowing it to number over 100 and sometimes as low as 40. He also has a very precise idea about what that audience should be like: "We do not cater to the man who goes to the theater to satisfy a social need for contact with culture: in other words, to have something to talk about to his friends and to be able to say that he has seen this or that play and that it was interesting...
...emphasis on national priorities or the military-industrial complex would seem out of place. Saltonstall must have felt that way too. He stressed his administrative experience with his father and chiefly relied on what Fox called the "old Bill Bates approach." Bates, the district's last Congressman, proposed to cater to the individual needs of every voter. Saltonstall called this the "people-to-people approach." It meant promising special favors for the shoe, fishing, leather, and electronics industries that make up the economy of the North Shore. Such a strategy unwittingly wrote off the growing proportion of commuters who depend...
ALWAYS ONE to cater to his au?ience, Nader knew that he had to answer that question at Harvard. For much of the first part of his speech, he worked over the same premises that have led to hard nosed militant action on many campuses. His analysis of the failure of the universities is far more elegant and detailed than one charging Complicity With the War Machine or Oppressing Poor Tenants. In a more general attack, Nader showed how the university's professional schools were ignoring their social tasks. Medical schools don't teach prevention: law schools train corporate lawyers...