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...spring of 1974, Institute administrators made plans to bring another controversial Nixon aide, "communications chief" Clay T. Whitehead, to Cambridge, and the Institute's student advisory board made a huge fuss. But two years ago students were still morally outraged about the sordid revelations that a summer of Senate Watergate hearings had produced. This year, two weeks ago, when Malek arrived to conduct a study group called "Politics and Public Management," no one seemed overly anxious about, or even particularly aware of, Malek's past...
With only a one-shot rehearsal before a concert, as was the case last Wednesday, there is not time for fuss, and the atmosphere is usually very businesslike. Though obviously still still angry over the Logan-Colonnade affair, Rostropovich loosed the atmosphere with his antics. At one point in the concerto's slow movement, the oboe and the solo cello join in a singing contrapuntal duet. The oboist was playing too loudly for Rostropovich's taste, and so he stopped playing, turned around, and, shaking his index finger, abruptly accused and convicted the offender. "Are you the cause of this...
Immediately one can see what the fuss is all about. No self-respecting liberal or conservative would, in this day and age, come forward in favor of outright discrimination. What troubles people like Bok is this business of going beyond simply eliminating discrimination. What gives rise to the "nightmare of affirmative action" is the idea of actually having to go out and recruit women or minorities for jobs not traditionally held by women or minorities. The requirements of affirmative action do not allow employers to claim that women or minorities might have been hired had they applied for the positions...
...article about America as a public-spirited bicentennial observance. The article appears in this month's Esquire, flanked by two full-page ads ("low keyed," Xerox calls them) that identify Xerox as the sponsor of a journalistic first, a "special in print." There has been a certain amount of fuss about all this, which Salisbury may have anticipated ("A first I thought, gee whiz, should I do this," he said). In the Ellsworth (Maine) Times, E.B. White said he detected "the shadow of disaster" in the Salisbury-Xerox nexus and wondered if next we will see Gulden's Mustard commissioning...
...19th century in Chepachet, Rhode Island, farming and sometimes building sleighs for $17.69 each. Before he gets too far into it, Salisbury interrupts the part about Hiram to explain what he is up to, and you soon begin to wonder if his researches were worth all the fuss or the money...