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Some might take issue with Segal's evaluation. It is admittedly, biased and spiced with an implicit egotism. Does Segal deem himself one of those "thousand brightest"? No doubt he does, but his flagrant Harvardism has still another aspect. Segal loves and deeply misses the tolerance of idiosyncracy, of eccentricity, he found in his decade at Harvard. His theatrical endeavors were permitted, even encouraged at Harvard. On the other hand, the Yale community obviously brands such doings as the sign of one who is not "serious" about his academic profession. "I really bristle when I hear that adjective. I resent...
...Cocks and Paul Zimmerman, able to praise Frank Perry or Paul Williams as film masters at a moment's notice, acquired positions at Time and Newsweek held by tougher fellows long ago--James Agee and John O'Hara. Or, why doesn't Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. deem film important enough to bring some of his secular history to it to make for a relevant panache? And why did Joseph Morgenstern, one of the best of the lot, one of the few with human concerns broader than Panavision, drop films to write social commentary. Perhaps I know the answer to that...
...wage side, companies' biggest problem has been explaining to the silent minority of salaried employees the rules on merit raises. Each employee can get as much or as little as his bosses deem appropriate, but the company can increase its total salary and benefit costs by no more than 5.5%. Employees of Rollins, Inc., a diversified Atlanta company, got the deliciously wrong idea that everybody's pay would automatically jump 5.5%; executives are disabusing them of that notion. Raises that come as a result of promotions do not count against the 5.5% standardre severe enough to make many businessmen gloomy...
WHEN he announced the wage-price freeze, President Nixon based his action on the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970. The law gives stand-by powers to the President to "issue such orders as he may deem appropriate to stabilize prices, rents, wages and salaries." The irony is that Nixon vigorously opposed the bill when it was debated in Congress and said he would...
...wrote Frankfurter, "is not likely to be insensible to the freedom guaranteed by our Constitution. But as a member of this court, I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard...