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...that restricted the admission of minority groups to colleges and jobs. Eventually, merit systems, based on objective testing, replaced the quotas. Equal opportunity was supposedly assured for all. But equal opportunity did not lead necessarily to equal success. As some groups lagged behind in the competition, people began to discern a "white middle-class bias" in the testing. Where to turn next? To quotas, of course, as the doubtful means to assure minority access to colleges and jobs...
...better health than most other Scottish occupational groups-both fewer illnesses and longer life. But a second part revealed that many of the supposedly robust clergymen complained of psychological and emotional problems. In the group under 45, three out of four had such complaints. The figures led Eadie to discern a "parsonic personality" among those who choose the church in the first place-persons afflicted with a "guilt-neurosis syndrome," who try to be "omnipotent and omnicompetent, on the one hand, and all-loving and all-lovable on the other." When a clergyman fails to achieve such inhuman perfection, Eadie...
Like so many Russian artists, Akhmatova learned to discern fate in the changing cold war weather. The Khrushchev thaw brought renewed official acceptance. Much of her work was republished in Russia. At 75, she traveled to Oxford for an honorary degree, to Italy for a prize and to Paris. where 53 years before Modigliani had sketched her portrait. But fame, as Akhmatova once wrote, "is a trap wherein there is neither happiness nor light." Two years later, when she was buried with full Orthodox rites, her graveside was crowded with the Soviet literary establishment...
Freakishly foul weather has struck so many parts of the world in the past year that some meteorologists discern a complex, long-term change in climates. Others discount the theory. On one point, however, all agree: the impact has been devastating to tourism, to industry, and most especially to the world's already hard-pressed food supplies...
...dimly recognized as Providence, R.I. As I moved through the maze of twisting, whisper-haunted streets, I realized that I seemed to be inexplicably pulled to a preordained destination-the Swan Point Cemetery. There I was drawn in particular to one granite tomb, on which the human eye could discern under the fungoid moon these chiseled letters...