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Several of Brown's arguments are deja vu-- they have already been heard before and settled. After long consultations during the fall, the course leaders decided to abandon plans for a system of "nonsense" grading in some sections, and agreed to grade "evaluatively," according to the department's own criteria. Suddenly, Brown raises the grading issue again. Again, the "qualified" section man argument goes back to July, when the department agreed to have persons other than Soc Rel graduate students teach sections if they were not paid. Again, this issue was settled with 148 in the fall...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Soc Rel 148-149 | 3/12/1969 | See Source »

...Students and militants, black and white, neophyte radicals and New Leftists raised fists and hurled stones at the old order. The system must be destroyed; the Establishment must be laid low. Obscenities mingled with tear gas in Chicago. Black Panthers roamed the streets of Oakland. With a sense of deja-vu-of old, familiar furniture being dusted off-barricades once again surrounded the University of Paris. There were no programs, or few of them, for the future; there was only rage against the present. If the rage was often justified, the results of these revolutionary attempts (sometimes mere games) were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: OF REVOLUTION AND THE MOON | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...Neil Simon musical to remember other musicals by: it is slick, amiable and derivative. With a plot line borrowed from the Wilder-Diamond film The Apartment and a structure copied from How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, the show is not so much viewed as deja...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 27, 1968 | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...PROMISES is a Neil Simon musical to remember other musicals by: slick, amiable and derivative. With a plot line borrowed from the Wilder-Diamond film The Apartment and a structure copied from How to Succeed in Business With out Really Trying, the show is not so much viewed as deja vu'd. While Jerry Orbach will probably light up Broadway from this show onwards, his performance is not equal to his acting in Scuba Duba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 20, 1968 | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...Promises, Promises is derived from the Billy Wilder-I.A.L. Diamond film The Apartment, which was far sharper in lancing U.S. sexual hypocrisy, and the structure of the show has been borrowed from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. The evening is not so much viewed as deja...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Mediocrity into Success | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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