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...author has a bigger target in mind than literary devices. Both Mallabar and John Clearwater, Hope's mathematician husband, are scientists who become so obsessed with their theories that they lose their grip on real life. Hope, whose previous job had been classifying 147 ancient hedgerows in south Dorset, falls in love with John's billowing dreams: "What I want to do," he says, "is write the geometry of a wave...
...level and establish control over their curriculums. Last week Baylor backed off a bit, offering to let the Texas Baptist body elect one-quarter of its board members. In the meantime, Baylor and Wake Forest universities plan new theology schools to compete with the six seminaries now in the grip of fundamentalist boards. Another moderate group, the Southern Baptist Alliance, will open a seminary in Richmond next fall...
Although the play raises many intriguing questions about the civil rights movement, the insights offered by the various characters do little to illuminate the issue. Everyone except Evelyn has a firm grip on their opinions and has no problem stating them...
...says, vowed back then to transform campuses into engines of ongoing social change; now they are in a position to impose their will. A much less conspiratorial interpretation is that American schools and colleges are dealing with a demographic change that will take another couple of decades to grip society as a whole -- the shift, because of higher birth and immigration rates among nonwhite and Hispanic people, from a majority-white to a truly multiracial society. These nonwhite and Hispanic students want a curriculum that gives them more dignity. So do women and gays -- and faculty from all those groups...
...more presidency members who supported Jovic followed suit. Voicing fears that the country was headed inexorably toward civil war, Jovic said he was "not ready to go along with such decisions that are leading to the breakup of the country." For his part, Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic found his grip on power seriously weakened by the turmoil. With the prospect that the army might yet impose a crackdown, Yugoslavia was left teetering between hope and fear...