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...those criteria, Gars and Goyles is certainly good entertainment. The numbers are big and brassy, the songs are catchy, and the plot is nothing if not inane. But as good theater, it falls short: the book is too muddled, too much like a reading of the Worst of the National Lampoon, to sneak by unnoticed. The rest of the production is simply too good and the hokiness of the script only glares out at the audience...
...that governs the behavior of inmates. Pinero is making a critical argument. Even the most incorrigible criminals in our society do draw the line at some point; the dehumanizing effects of incarceration do not completely erase some sense of what is right and what is wrong, however loose the criteria may be. In no one is Pinero's point better epitomized than in Juan (Jose Perez), a stocky Puerto Rican who stands alone as the only inmate to rise to Short Eye's defense before the other prisoners and to lend him an ear, if admittedly not the most sympathetic...
...able to take advantage of the program. The committee had been pushing for this for years and provided a continuing source of information and support on food stamp issues--information that was unavailable anywhere else in Congress. Another major improvement that developed over the years is standardized eligibility criteria and benefits. The committee is still working to facilitate participation by the rural poor, who often have difficulty travelling the great distances to welfare offices...
...slots for them in each class. By 1974, the university was using application forms that asked for racial identification; the results made it clear that only blacks, Chicanes, American Indians and Asians need apply for the 16 places. The university never denied that by all the standard criteria-grades, test scores, benchmark totals-Bakke's record was better than that of many minority students enrolled. The special 16 in the 1973 class scored average aptitude percentile rankings of 35 in science and 46 in verbal skills; Bakke scored 97 in science and 96 in verbal skills...
...easy to forget that the elderly constitute a minority group, and that mandatory retirement is a vicious tool of discrimination against this group. We agree with the ultimate philosophy of affirmative action--that standards of merit should be the only criteria for employment. But that philosophy should apply to the old as well. Chronological age alone is not a valid criteria for choosing employees...