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Still, the feeling persists: the judges have gone too far. Sociologist Nathan Glazer says that the progression of judicially enforced rights has given the country "indigestion," like a boa constrictor that has swallowed a goat. Though judges rate high in public opinion surveys - a poll commissioned by the American Bar Association last year found that 77% believed that judges are "generally honest and fair"- politicians and public alike have begun agitating to make them more accountable for both their judgments and their conduct. But accountability should not come at the cost of compromising judicial independence...
...Novak: "I think that like a great aircraft carrier, the court changed direction, and only two or three degrees of that direction are apparent now. But I hope this means an increased respect for the fact that every individual has a history, and that history has some relevance." Nathan Glazer, Harvard professor of education and author of Affirmative Discrimination, believes that "what the Supreme Court called for is human. It is asking for the kind of behavior any commonsensical human being would believe...
Linda Collins, wife of a Chicago steel-worker and mother of two small children, has reluctantly gone to work as a night waitress on weekends to cover living expenses. Gladys Glazer, a retired secretary in Orlando, Fla., shops where second-quality vegetables and fruits are offered at reduced prices, and even there she shuns strawberries as an extravagance. Manhattan Lawyer Arthur Alexander delivers some letters in person to nearby business offices to save on postage...
...Bethell '53, editor of Harvard Magazine, announces that he was the one who "lost the religion that Larry Flynt found." Bethell says his first mission will be to "sex up" his floundering publication, but denies that his first project will be a "scratch 'n sniff" centerfold of Nathan Glazer...
...decade now the movement has slowly, insidiously taken shape among the East Coast intelligentsia--in the halls and seminar rooms of universities like Harvard, and in the pages of prestigious New York intellectual journals like Commentary. Retreating from their former New Deal left-liberalism, political scientists such as Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and social critics such as Commentary editor Norman Podheretz have nurtured and refined the social theory of "ethnic pluralism," an intellectual construct which--along with its pernicious step-child, "reverse discrimination"--they now trot out to the ideological front lines in their wide-ranging battle...