Word: elementals
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...book of Britain's direct political control and colonization of southern Africa, and the end of the spirit of noblesse oblige and paternalism with which the British settled Rhodesia and negotiated with Zimbabwe's black leaders. This noblesse oblige underlies South Africa's apartheid and is an element of racism throughout the world. Perhaps Britain's withdrawal will mark the decline of that spirit in southern Africa...
...second element is a structure which includes: a union management committee which controls and sanctions experimentation and change, and committees at a number of other levels--at the top, at the middle--management level, and in each department where they are made up of shop stewards, managers and other workers...
...third element is a constant process of study and experimentation and the fourth is a strategy of not forcing anything--of helping those employees, union officials and managers who want to experiment. If they do it, others who may be less adventurous, or less courageous, or for whatever reason, can then see something that has worked...
MacCaffrey admits that evaluation procedures are "primitive at best." However, the subjectivity of promotion and tenure decisions is not seen as an element contributing to the persistence of discrimination, but is instead used as a screen on which to project an image of irreproachable authority. The subjectivity of guidelines reinforces the evidence offered by the numbers themselves--that certain sectors of the university are not truly committed to affirmative action...
Robbins' method of integrating movement with every other theatrical element (including sets and lighting) has influenced nearly all the hit musicals now on Broadway. Indeed, Choreographers Michael Bennett (A Chorus Line) and Patricia Birch (Grease, They're Playing Our Song), as well as Director Martin Charnin (Annie), worked as dancers in earlier productions of West Side Story. Though he does not rule out the possibility, it is unlikely that Robbins, now 61, is going to rejoin his progeny by doing a new show soon. "What interests me is a great challenge," he says, "like doing Uncle...