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That a substantial number of his listeners can be depended upon to ignore the message is seen in the ease with which Osborne can provoke them to anger and unabashed public retort. Some nights it is hard to distinguish between the paid actors planted in the audience and the victims-the paying customers. In that respect, Osborne's title can be read as a subtle irony...
Pass-Fail. By far the most popular alternative, this eliminates competition for grades but fails to distinguish excellent students from average or poor...
...third trend, and the most significant for changing the character of PBH, is the redirection of programs toward community involvement as opposed to work within institutions. These new efforts frustrate any attempt to arbitrarily distinguish "social action" from "social service" because of the programs' relative independence of some of society's more odious establishments. By entering the community, volunteers may gain a greater sense of the uniqueness--and the limits--of their contribution...
...thousand, while in three-story walk-ups, the figure was only 31. The most hazardous living quarters were tall buildings with "double-loaded corridors" (apartments on both sides of the hall). In these buildings the corridors are "a nether world of crime and fear" where it is difficult to distinguish residents from strangers. The only "defensible space" is the apartment itself. In walk-ups, however, hallways are in effect part of people's homes, and as a result, "defensible space is extended...
...Southern bigotry which subjected him to jokes more cruel than politically pointed Nixon is the victim of his own past performances. Not only are his lies and errors etched upon the public record but his neuroses at least appear to be so obvious that he is often impossible to distinguish from a parody...