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Theoretically, it is in sophomore tutorial that the department introduces historical method. Tutors generally concur that a major challenge in dealing with non-Western problems is the different terminology and the foreign modes of thought to which students must become accustomed. A student without this background would be at a considerable disadvantage in a departmental course on Chinese communism, for instance, and would be more likely to be frustrated by the subject matter...
Though many Americans concur with Reagan's plan to put welfare recipients to work, some disagree with the assumptions behind such a move. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose Chicago-based Operation Push stresses hard work and self-help as the road to minority success, calls workfare "psychological warfare against poor people." Says Jackson: "It's fueling the meanness mania in this country. It suggests something negative about the character of poor people." Because there are so few jobs around, some critics fear that workfare will force welfare recipients to labor for low pay in substandard conditions...
...evidence, official and personal, the American social scene is less mixed now than ever. In the March issue of FORTUNE, Roger Wilkins sees blacks and whites separated by a widening "social chasm." Recent reports of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and of the National Urban League concur...
After Bryan Organ's portrait of Princess Margaret was unveiled in 1970, the artist "awoke to the most horrific morning of my life." One critic insisted that Organ, 45, "must have had a migraine" while painting it; others were even less kind. The Royal Family evidently did not concur, for they agreed to have Organ do the first official portrait of Prince Charles, 32. The completed work was hung in the National Portrait Gallery earlier this month, and reaction was tepid. Said one critic: "No one could possibly enthuse about it." What did enthuse just about everyone, however...
Plutnicki's comment reveals at least part of the value that Mannix and Harris's leadership holds for the team. It is in the first place a leadership of example. The captains themselves, the other players on the team, and the coaches all concur that Mannix and Harris act as role models, particularly for the freshmen...