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...directors, whose policy decisions will affect the entire membership. Brown has said he knows of no other corporation where such small percentage of the members can dictate to the majority. In fact, several years ago the stockholders made it even easier to achieve a quorum by reducing the fraction from ten per cent to five...
...blacks think that they must now reject all of their white friends?the Jew among them?in order to discover themselves. As a result, an ominous current of anti-Semitism has appeared to widen the breach between them and the Jew. While this ancient virus infects only a small fraction of the country's 22 million Negroes, the Jew knows from bitter experience that it can spread with distressing rapidity. At the same time, some latent anti-black feelings have come to the fore among Jews?symbolized by the half-casual, half-contemptuous Yiddish reference to the "schvartzes" (blacks...
Rather, it was a tragic error of the later Christian church to derive an anti-Semitic attitude from Jewish involvement in the case of Jesus of Nazareth. The church forgot that the prosecution was acting in absolute good faith, that even so it represented only a small fraction of the Jewish populace, and that responsibility for its role is not transferable. Indeed, to be anti-Semitic because of Good Friday is as ridiculous as hating Italians because a few of their forebears once threw Christians to the lions...
...doesn't resolve anything neatly, but anticlimactically suspends the narrative development of an extremely complicated person. His wife's grief rings false to us since Siegel has chosen to show her previously as a nag. But we realize at the end that the grief is real, that only a fraction of the marriage was shown us during the film--that people unleash themselves on one another with the unspoken assumption that a future exists in which all problems and feelings can be reconciled...
Captivating Experiences. Goldmark believes that initially EVR will be purely instructional-used in schools, hospitals and industries-if only for reasons of cost. Motorola will price the first EVR player units at nearly $800 apiece. Yet mass production could conceivably push the price down to a fraction of that and eventually lead to TV sets with built-in EVR units. "EVR will make education as compelling as TV entertainment," Goldmark insists. He points out that with EVR, a backwoods teacher could become an educational paragon, ordering lectures by Robert Lowell on poetry, by Zino Francescatti on the violin...