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Worse, these compliant clubs are in the minority. At least eight others gave up major championships rather than meet the rules, although a few have since begun to admit blacks and can regain eligibility. The St. Louis Country Club in Ladue, Mo., ceded the 1992 Women's Amateur Championships, ostensibly because it is renovating its greens. The Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Ill., relinquished the 1993 Walker Cup. Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pa., took in a few blacks as junior members in recent months but withdrew from the 1993 P.G.A. championship because it could not guarantee that such...
...pursuit of moments of transcendent personal pleasure. These he seeks in his nightly sessions in the bathroom, where, according to a strict schedule ("The Wednesday Ear Ritual"), he cleans and maintains a different portion of his anatomy; then he gallops toward the marriage bed for inventive trysts with the compliant Lucrecia...
Zorah has many descendants in the artist's mature work, and it is evident that in Morocco Matisse's basic idea of the artist-model relationship crystallized. He began to envision the studio as a kind of harem, where the static and endlessly compliant figure submitted again and again to the pasha- like gaze of her observer...
While President Bush has avoided the sharp attacks on higher education made famous by the Reagan Administration, college officials nationwide say they are concerned Bush and a compliant Congress may be quietly tagging American colleges with unprecedented levels of regulation...
Such sentiments are a far cry from the compliant attitudes of black leaders 20 years ago. To preserve racial harmony, the ruling white establishment offered token gains and piecemeal concessions. But the price for blacks was a slow pace toward integration. The city remains a bastion of housing segregation, with most blacks living south of the downtown business district and most whites to the north. Black leaders are pressing for more seats on the eleven-member city council, where, despite their 30% share of the population, they hold but two positions; Hispanics (16%) and Asians (2%) have none...