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...Cabinet's most controversial member is under attack not only by environmental groups but also by the state of California, staffers in his own department's Office of Surface Mining, and even Congress. Said California Democrat Alan Cranston, in an impassioned speech to the Senate: "The clamor for his removal grows more persistent every day. I want Mr. Watt stopped...
...Publicity would build for a while, then die out," Glanting recalls. But each wave was bigger than the last. At first the clamor came from small FM stations, then the Knight newspapers wire service, then a huge AM station in North Carolina, "then some station in Detroit, they called me at about 11:30 one night and I was plotzed, then local television." For a while, Troise says, the club became a monster that wouldn't die. Glanting was doing as many as six interviews...
...majority of white members of the vaunted Harvard community, these troubles seem far from affecting their everyday lives. Rather than rally around the cause of minority students, white students clamor for longer library hours. The present situation and the insensitivity of white students would be absurd if it weren't so sad and insidious: the signs of the times indicate that avowed liberals are more interested in their private good than in the good of the community. The prevalent attitude constitutes not so much racism as a disregard for minority issues. As long as the majority of students and faculty...
...report also represents a sort of anomaly. Given the glacial speed with which most such University committees move, the briskness of the Gomes group's endeavor and the firmness of its proposals seem relatively remarkable. Formed last spring by President Bok amid clamor for a campus Third World center, the committee's report shows that meaningful student protest can provide can impetus for change...
That, of course, is what show biz calls star quality. Darci's precocious fame is not without precedent: at City Ballet, Patricia McBride, Suzanne Farrell and Gelsey Kirkland all came to prominence at about her age. Still the clamor for Darci has surprised the company-which promotes its repertory rather than its stars-and Balanchine. He has forbidden interviews with her. Darci's career is only a few months old, yet her parents are already beset by promoters who are seeking endorsements. That's how fast a new sunbeam travels...