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...Jackson is right in one respect: communication between those who have had experience with the casualties of unwise drug-taking and those who see only glamour in the hallucinogenic drugs is seriously impaired. Those who are presumably experts in writing might help us overcome this difficulty rather than attack us with such asperity...
...through Broadway's annual Tony awards, which, since their inception in 1947, have been staged with all the glitter and glamour of a church supper. "Broadway deserves better," Cohen decided, and seven months ago he bought the rights to produce this year's awards show, then wooed American Airlines into sponsoring the event on network TV. Last week the new Tony-poised, polished, brimming with talent-arrived at Manhattan's Shubert Theater and, in one swinging sweep, made Emmy and Oscar look merely like tired vaudevillians...
Underlying Waves. No glamour boy on the podium, Davis guided the Met orchestra through Britten's surging score with the firm and unerring hand of a ship's captain riding out a sou'wester. His precise baton gave full play to the music's quick, dramatic climaxes, while deftly sustaining the rhythms of wind and waves. His beat was decisive, his attack well balanced and logical...
...local governments do not have the vitality and competence to play their role in an effective partnership with the Federal Government." In all 50 states, no more than a handful of education commissioners are regarded as good administrators; nearly half are elected politicians. For men of superior talents, the glamour is in Washington, not in Albany or Austin; the money is in business, not in a city council or a zoning commission...
People with Purpose. Fordham is now building an entirely new coeducational liberal-arts college on a $25 million campus near the cultural glamour of Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Per forming Arts. Its dean, the Rev. Arthur Clarke, expects to accept 3,000 "mature, bright students-people with a purpose" to enjoy an "urban, strongly humanistic" curriculum. The Lincoln Center campus already includes Fordham's School of Law, which handled mainly night students in rented downtown quarters for 60 years, and will add the School of Education, still housed in what Executive Vice President Rev. Timothy Healy...