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...trapped trying to stay afloat in his sea of caution. Introducing the section of his letter on race relations, he lists equality of opportunity as the first of three "pertinent objectives," and then adds, "We have come furthest in providing equal opportunity regardless of race; certainly, the University does not engage in any overt practice or policies of a discriminatory nature." But covert and unspoken discrimination remains an insidious reality. And if the aim of equality of opportunity is to eliminate hereditary privilege, as T.H. Marshall said, why are minority students with a small alumni pool not forwarded the funds...
Patricia, 28, has strayed furthest from the parental nest. Tall (5 ft. 8 in.), slender and quiet in manner, she not only dropped out of Northwestern University but also the lives of her parents in the early '70s. She lived with Rock Musician Bernie Leadon of the Eagles, opposed the Viet Nam War and, for a time, ceased communication with the elder Reagans. "I was very rebellious and very feisty," she once explained. "The one place I wanted to go to was Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco." Patti did not go to the counterculture capital, but to Hollywood. There...
Landslide. Yes, landslide-stunning, startling, astounding, beyond the wildest dreams and nightmares of the contending camps, beyond the furthest ken of the armies of pollsters, pundits and political professionals. After all the thousands of miles, the millions of words and dollars, the campaign that in newspapers across the land on the very morning of Election Day was still headlined TOO CLOSE TO CALL turned out to be a landslide. The American voter had struck again. Half the election-watching parties in the nation were over before the guests arrived. The ponderous apparatus of the television networks' Election Night coverage...
...Chekhov. The purpose of art of this sort is to take the ordinary and make it extraordinary--this he has failed to do. He brings little in the way of creativity or technical resources to his film, only a lot of self-conscious artiness which he takes to its furthest extremes, directorial touches which never coalesce. It all starts with the opening credits, white letters on black background, no sound: "Oh, Christ," you think--"not another American Bergman." Throughout, Redford blunders like the typical autodidact, smothering whatever intuitions he might have about film with a congeries of tony cliches...
These attempts range from experiments to reduce assembly-line monotony to employee stock-purchase or profit-sharing plans that give workers a larger stake in company earnings. The furthest reaching program is West German co-determination, which allots workers and management equal numbers of seats on the supervisory boards of large firms. But both sides have become somewhat disenchanted with the system. Management charges that union representatives have leaked board secrets, like plans to lay off employees. Workers claim that they are usually outvoted on the board by the employers, who have a tie-breaking extra vote in case...