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...term Republican mayor, Ralph J. Perk, 63. Last month he had 70 city sanitation workers deliver questionnaires on pornography to 260,000 local households. Hizzoner's avowed aim: to establish a community standard on obscenity, in line with the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on the need for local criteria for jury decisions in obscenity cases...
...lose sight of "the continuing dynamics of culture," that we will remember that "codes for the guidance of our moral lives are constantly being proposed for us by the culture even where the social standards which are being invoked seem most precisely to prohibit recourse to moral criteria." What she is saying, through her murky prose, is that in her critical role she seeks primarily to offer some moral guidance, even if her criteria seem totally at odds with everyday reality. Which explains, of course, her willingness to make moral judgments about anything in her essays without really explaining...
...committee's practice of asking member of special departments to rate the ability of an applicant who is an artist or musician. "'You measure excellence in a variety of ways, and athletics is just one," Mosley says. The committee still reviews the athlete-applicant by the same criteria it applies to other students, he says; there is no formula to weight athletic ability, and the fact that Harvard does not award athletic scholarships makes it imperative that each student be able to make it through on his or her own ability. "They're not about to fold up their tents...
...mean that society feels that what is good enough for the nation is not nearly good enough for GM? Hardly. The disparity can be tracked not to some hidden spectrum of social values but to two distinct systems of compensation. In business, pay levels are established by clear criteria toward the equally clear purpose of increasing production and profit; by and large, the system rewards most those most crucial to fulfilling that purpose. On the other hand, in government, which serves perennially disputed purposes-with results beyond measure-the salary scale reflects nothing more precise than the politicians' best...
BBUT WHATEVER the University does about salaries, it may have to be less selective about who it hires in the future. Because of the competition with other schools, the criteria for teaching ability in judging a teaching applicant may be hard to meet...