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...harmful the sievelike nature of the American Government and the blabbiness of the American press. The gain is in a public informed, in time to redress wrongs. Advantage and disadvantage are not always in neat balance. Where in other societies only authority prevails, here what is not authority's domain is left to conscience. The heartening fact, to judge by the record, is that the graver the issue, the more the editor hears from his conscience...
Keohan surveys his domain and predicts confidently that the field hockey area will be in top condition and that the stadium track will be ready by the first week of April...
...Harry Brown Jr., a black hoofer played with high-stepping panache by Glynn Turman. Dreaming of fame on the minstrel circuit, he teams up with Charlie Bates, a shady con-mannerist portrayed by Tony Award Winner Ted Ross (The Wiz). The stage is still the white man's domain, however, and Bates, Brown and their fellow black performers must stick to the formula of blackface makeup and plantation humor. They are forced, in vaudeville's looking-glass world, to imitate the white man's parody of blacks...
...death of Stalin. Like other leaders of his ilk, Daley fancied himself immortal and groomed no successor. Even his son, State Sen. Richard M. Daley, whom the mayor supposedly wanted to succeed him, had been given no position of power from which to exert control over his father's domain. And many regulars hate...
...made environmental harm was heightened by the Teton Dam disaster in eastern Idaho, which killed eleven people and caused more than $1 billion damage (TIME, June 21). The Government agency that went ahead with the ill-fated project is the Bureau of Land Reclamation−now within Andrus' domain...