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...pitiable musical play adapted by Leon Uris from his bestselling novel Exodus, has been dated both by history and the glut of Jewish musicals trying to emulate the success of Fiddler on the Roof. However morally admirable, it is difficult, 22 years after the event, to work up a passionate present concern over the ordeal of founding Israel. This season, Broadway has seemed like a secular synagogue. Prior to Ari were The Rothschilds (pleasant) and Two by Two (puerile), plus the Yiddish shows Light, Lively and Yiddish and The President's Daughter. To all concerned, shalom and enough already...
...described his wife as "a member of the Ph.D. glut you've heard about." But she hopes to find a teaching post soon...
Concerning the glut in the Ph. D. market, the report questioned "the addition of more quality faculties and programs in areas of relatively abundant production of traditional Ph. D. degrees." Citing the lower quality of new programs in comparison with established programs, the report frowned upon further expansion at many aspiring universities...
...posts in physics. Meantime, graduate schools are turning out 300 new Ph.D.s in physics each year. To some extent, overproduction is inevitable. The postwar "baby boom" that helped send college enrollments soaring in the middle '60s is now working its way through the graduate schools. Much of the glut can also be blamed on the academic pecking order. As bachelor's and master's degrees became more common, academics insisted that doctorates were essential for college teaching, and as degree inflation mounted, dozens of small colleges yearned to become "universities" by taking on expensive graduate programs...
Last week, as moneymen from 50 countries gathered at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, B.I.S. Chairman Jelle Zijlstra warned in unusually strong language that, by causing a world glut of dollars, the huge U.S. deficits "form the monetary breeding ground for a continuing international inflationary process." If worldwide inflation continues too long, he said, worldwide recession is "inescapable." The B.I.S. annual report added that it is "hard to discern how the U.S. authorities expect, by their own actions, to correct the balance of payments...