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...bureaucratic efficiency. To maintain a professional air and earn respect, the government has to break out of the routine it adopted on this year's weighty issues: listen to an explanation of a controversial issue by a student with an explicit, usually anti-Harvard view of the subject: entertain debate for several minutes, including several complaints about the lack of a better procedure: then support the view put forth by the student by passing a resolution, an uninformed endorsement carrying little weight. It must address such issues better if it hopes to be a visible, important part of undergraduate life...
What white voters, in cities like Chicago, who entertain racist phobia toward Afro-American candidates fail to recognize is that their paranoid style political preferences are not fixed habits for all white voters and can be checkmuted when Blacks are galvanized to turnout in larger numbers than whites. These conditions happily obtained in Chicago's April 12th mayoral election, gave Harold Washington a more than 42,000 vote edge over Republican Bernard Epton, out of more than 1,3 million votes cast. Upper middle-class and professional whites in the Lakefront wards kept their own racial feelings in check enough...
...White House woodshed, and when the secretary emerged, he carried a plaster trophy of a foot with a bullet hole in it and announced. "I've learned a lot about the Beach Boys in the last 12 hours. We'll look forward to having them here in Washington to entertain us again...
...phenomenon is not peculiar to those people who have never been interested in sports in general. It also encompasses those who read Leigh Montville daily and entertain themselves frequently by playing catch. The number-of fans who remain faithful to professional baseball has dropped alarmingly...
Throughout the dance six male clowns, dressed in white tutus, imitate a corps de ballet of Swan Lake and inelegantly entertain and interrupt Fontessa. Ragtime and The Man with amusing burlesques. The piece's success rides more on its dramatic and humorous aspects than inherent strengths in the dance. Towards the end Fontessa enters the stage in a sequined silver bikint to the song "If my friends could see me now." At one point one almost expects Ragtime to open his mouth and begin talking--certainly a radical departure from any traditional dance form...