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...Phoenix, we seem to be in an area of staff revolts, and now everyone is trying very hard to label the recent change of management at WHRB another staff revolt. The tone of the recent Crimson article on WHRB was particularly misleading. When I spoke to Mr. Frazier on the phone, I said that my election did not signify "Radical takeover" or a "staff revolt", but that it simply involved a major disagreement about how the station should approach programming changes. Those of us at the station that favor some changes now seem to be the majority of the membership...
...even defeat by Joe Frazier has halted Muhammad All's interminable chatter. Upon his arrival in Lima, Peru, on his latest Latin American junket, Ali talked nonstop: "Most whites are bad, but I don't hate them. I just don't want to integrate with them." Was there anything he feared more than Frazier's fists? "I don't fear nothing. Oh no, I fear the tax collector more than anything else in the world." Muhammad, the former heavyweight champion, has good reason. Of the almost $30 million he has earned in the ring...
...Visiting Frazier's planned community, Burris is both attracted and repelled?attracted by the seeming contentment of its inhabitants, repelled by their voluntary submission to the maneuverings. however well-intentioned, of its Planners and Managers. In the end, his skepticism overcome, he decides to join the community and with "euphoric abandon" wires his college head: "My dear President Mittelbach, you may take your stupid university...
...failed to understand them. Sometimes he has even branded them as neurotic or even psychotic. Occasionally he has seemed to imply that he himself is beyond criticism. "When I met him, he was convinced he was a genius," Yvonne Skinner remembers. And in Walden Two, Skinner's alter ego Frazier, assuming the posture of Christ on the cross, says that there is "a curious similarity" between himself and God?adding, however, that "perhaps I must yield to God in point of seniority...
...another Walden Two passage, Skinner sketches a more realistic self-portrait. With some bitterness, his alter ego Frazier addresses Burris: "You think I'm conceited, aggressive, tactless, selfish. You're convinced that I'm completely insensitive to my effect upon others, except when the effect is calculated. You can't see in me any personal warmth. You're sure that I'm one who couldn't possibly be a genuine member of any community . . . Shall we say that as a person I'm a complete failure and have done with...