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JUST WHEN minorities thought they'd heard the worst from this Administration, the President hit them again last week. Given yet another opportunity to dispel minority fears of government insensitivity and indifference, the President hedged--succeeding only in intensifying those impressions. Appearing before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Attorney General William French Smith pledged the Administration's support for extension of the Voting Right Act of 1965; at the same time, he demanded certain revisions that would effectively gut the law. Welcome back--the same people who brought you tax exemptions to racially discriminatory schools, now present you with a fresh...
WHEN LEADERS of the medical profession are increasingly worried about maintaining their public reputation for competence--and are scurrying to dispel the image of some physician as drug addicts--it is silly to waste time investigating a physician whose case has already been decided. Obviously it should never revoke in a knee-jerk reaction to a felony conviction; no punishment should be that automatic. But if, for example, the law required court clerks to send the review board a transcript of the trial along with the notice of physician's conviction--and if the board were willing to simply review...
...into the defensive chumminess that is one of the hallmarks of provincial art-the trade unionism of the In joke. Such longueurs threaten but do not overwhelm the effort to improve coast-to-coast cultural communication. This show is well worth seeing; and it will do a lot to dispel the faint condescension which, in some quarters, still clings to mere clay. -By Robert Hughes
...doubts lingered about Baker's staying power, his newest compendium--Poor Russell's Almanac, his eighth book--should dispel them. A "retooled" and "retrofitted" edition of his 1972 version with the same name, the Almanac is less overtly political than other Baker books such as So This is Depravity. That work, Baker addicts will recall, answered the Big Questions--queries like "Is it true that [former president] Zachary Taylor liked to be spanked by older women?" (no) and "Wasn't George Washington once treated for an Oedipus complex?" (yes, but it was accidental), Instead, the revamped Almanac offers an hysterical...
...legged on the lawn. The finished painting became the Reagans' Christmas card this year. That token of good will to men is not a new phenomenon in the federal city, where trouble is the main business. Many Presidents have turned to Christmas festivities with a special fervor, to dispel for a few precious hours the gloom that usually presses in. Back in 1941, when war had come and news of defeat was the daily Washington fare, Franklin Roosevelt brought a guest to the South Portico on Christmas Eve. Winston Churchill looked out over thousands of troubled people...