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...audience probably can play that game with more finesse than can Ausubel, the author of Focus--producing a result quite opposite from the one desired. Rather than putting us on edge, the play allows us to sit back with unwarranted complacency, feeling that however tenuous may be our grasp on our situation, it is at least more firm than that which the play displays...
Make sure nobody knows what a good job Ford has done in getting the players in top condition. Conceal how all Ford's work has developed a strong, conditioned team with a grasp of the fundamentals. As a matter of fact, if anyone does mention Ford you should begin a heated argument about national politics or your new Country Squire station wagon...
...Still unsatisfied by her escapades in Book I, Myra resumes her humiliation of men, inflict ing yet another hilarious outrage upon a strapping, redheaded youth out of the Van Johnson mold. She also undertakes to save Hollywood, armed with the fore-knowlege of its decline and Vidal's grasp of the industry's "future" profit-and-loss sheets. She even has a warning for Judy Garland: "Get off the pills. If you don't, you'll be dead in 21 years...
...should like to make two points concerning the ongoing controversy between certain African-American faculty members and administrators. First, if the level of debate between Professors Kilson and Guinier is a reflection of the African-American intelligentsia's grasp and articulation of the African-American situation, it is little wonder that street-and-prison-educated people have consistently filled the ranks of the African-American leadership since the death of W.E.B. DuBois...
Genovese says the Christianity--indeed, any belief the slaves could have evolved from the reality of their daily lives--was less suitable as a weapon for attack than for passive resistance. It let the slaves "act like men," even though "they could not grasp their collective strength as a people and and act like political men." It allowed for people like the old slave who answered a young white minister's "Primarily, we must postulate the existence of a deity," with a gentle, "Yes, Lord, dat's so. Bless de Lord." It allowed slaves to be compassionate even after...