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Rousing this chorus of commentary last week was a three-page discussion draft prepared by White House aides as a possible addition to Executive Order No. 11246, issued by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The measure has been denounced for creating a legal and social nightmare and praised as one of the most important tools for ending discrimination in the U.S. It requires firms that do business with the Federal Government to take "affirmative action" to eliminate racial bias in employment. To enforce the order, the Labor Department in 1968 began requiring that contractors set numerical goals for blacks, other...
When affirmative action is buried, the eulogy will be performed by a black scholar. And as the mourners depart, a black intellectual will be heard to ask, "What's next?" A chorus of voices will answer, "The Emancipation Proclamation!" (SCPO) Elwyne D. McFalls U.S.N. (ret.) Tulsa...
...grow. Much of the humor that is a big part of their theatrical approach comes courtesy of Bob Cilman, 51, an accomplished artistic director and the group's founder. The performers' Road to Heaven is set in a surreal nursing home where, in the opening scene, chorus members wear prairie bonnets and cowboy hats. The repertoire includes Every Breath You Take by the Police, Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and Bob Dylan's Forever Young. The audience's emotions are constantly shifting from tears to outright guffaws, which is in part what makes the experience so moving...
...geriatric crooners weren't unorthodox enough--they have sung with break dancers and a gay men's chorus--consider their new sidekick, the Drunk Stuntmen, a real rock-'n'-roll band with members the ages of their grandchildren. The two Northampton groups share some songs in Road to Nowhere, which they performed in the Netherlands last fall and plan to take in October to London, where Young@Heart will do 12 shows...
...chorus also turns on its ear the perception of what it means to grow old. Twenty-two years ago while working a lunch shift at a senior center, Cilman conceived the idea of having elders entertain, but it wasn't until a year later that he got a group together. Initially it did community performances, but in 1997 Cilman took the troupe to Holland for its first overseas appearance. These days Young@Heart confines itself to just a couple of local gigs, at which the performers get an equally exuberant reception...