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...anticipate that Harvard will be criticized for "quota-filling" and violating "traditional" norms of morality in making this choice. We reject both of these objections as groundless. As a College, we are fortunate that diversity and qualification are wedded in the same choice. We congratulate the University for finding the best candidates for the job regardless of sexual orientation. Hopefully the quality of Eck and Austin as scholars and community leaders will demonstrate to skeptics within the University and to national observers that sexual orientation is irrelevant to job performance...
...politics are similarly emblematic of the city--Al Sharpton, a man known more for greasy hair and groundless rhetoric than any kind of singular vision, almost captured the Democratic mayoral nomination straight out of the Harlem Renaissance. And Alfonse D'Amato, the Republican senator who seems so contrary to our liberal values in many respects, is our favorite son because he's so New York-centric; a belief that the Big Apple is the be-all and end-all heals all partisan wounds...
...whose specialty is 17th century Dutch painting but whose eye and expertise are remarkably broad ranging. Given an enormous acquisitions fund, Walsh has bought prudently and selectively. The art world's fear that the Getty would crash the Old Masters market like an 800-lb. gorilla has proved largely groundless. The collection's focus is fairly narrow; it was never, Walsh points out, meant to be a "Western Met," an encyclopedic museum. Its collection of painting and sculpture, entirely European, stops at the threshold of the 20th century--the most recent picture in it is James Ensor's huge, pullulating...
...like Black and Blue--part of Louis Armstrong's repertoire; all are played in a straight-ahead New Orleans style. But one's suspicion that the result might be dutiful and dull, the musical equivalent of a five-part series in the New York Times on wage stagnation, proves groundless. Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton rescues its idiom from both the dead end of strict revivalism and the cornier precincts of Dixieland, reinvesting it with swing and individuality and reminding us why this sensual, pleasurable music was once called "hot." What we have here, believe it or not, is 62 minutes...
...like Black and Blue -- part of Louis Armstrong?s repertoire; all are played in a straight-ahead New Orleans style. But one?s suspicion that the result might be dutiful and dull, the musical equivalent of a five-part series in the New York Times on wage stagnation, proves groundless. ?Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton? rescues its idiom from both the dead end of strict revivalism and the cornier precincts of Dixieland, reinvesting it with swing and individuality and reminding us why this sensual, pleasurable music was once called ?hot.? What we have here, believe it or not, is 62 minutes...