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Most of these reactions, whether stated eloquently by Bickel or in the spirit of alarmism by authors Benjamin Epstein and Arnold Forster, were still gut reactions based on the future implications of affirmative action. And because they were acts of outrage rather than attacks based on empirical data, they have been easily parried. The best recent counter-argument to those extolling meritocracy appeared in the briefs supporting the University of Washington against Marco DeFunis in 1974. Many briefs contended that very few hiring and admissions decisions are based solely on merit--and that race could play just as much...
...Brandeis University? Professor Kilson says that pluralism is an American ideal, and it is, indeed, my ideal. If Harvard provides a dignified, heated, well-lit and cleaned building for the worship of its minority Protestant community, it ought to do no less for its other minority congregations. H. Epstein...
...Merchant of Venice. A very good production indeed" of Shakespeare's not-so-funny comedy about the struggle between justice and mercy in a Venetian courtroom, according to Crimson reviewer Paul K. Rowe. Jon Epstein delivers a commanding performance as Shylock, more sinned against than sinning, and the supporting cast is fine as well. A good bet for the weekend if you can't make it to Yale. At the Loeb, November 19-22, at 8 p.m. Tickets...
...Jonathan Epstein's Shylock at the Loeb exhibited the inherentdifficulties of the role, many of which were overcome by the sheer force of his voice. At times he played a foolish old man, strangled in verbal tics, though always too terrible to be funny. More often he was the lofty, dignified representative of Judaism and its haughty law. In any case, his Shylock was more sinned against than sinning--the temptation that this production, not without provocation, succumbed to. One suspects that Esptein really wanted to play Lear or Coriolanus. Epstein was the only actor in the entire cast...
...Merchant of Venice. The Loeb takes on Shakespeare's not-so-funny comedy about the struggle between justice and mercy in a Venetian courtroom. Jon Epstein's performance as Shylock should be good. At the Loeb, November 13-16 and 19-22, at 8 p.m. Tickets...