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Because of Roots, Frank Price, president of Universal Television, expects to have an easier time selling a series called All God's Children, which is based on the struggles of a black Southern sharecropper. Roots also gave fresh impetus to another Universal production, The New Americans, a dramatic series with separate installments on blacks, Irish, Italians, Jews and Puerto Ricans...
Goodenough said the impetus for the survey came after the committee read the University's Affirmative Action reports. "We looked at the numbers and they said a lot of women were being hired, but we knew the question didn't lie in the number of women here...
...pathology" rationale: the structural impetus toward black unemployment that has long plagued the U.S. economy. Contrary to Moynihan's pompous suggestion, blacks can hardly thank "the healing powers of the democratic ideal and the creative vitality of the Negro people" for any success they have gained in the past 15 years. Rather the Gutman book testifies that creativity prospered long ago in the "living space" provided by antibellum slavery. It may have been after slavery that blacks had to struggle to keep that adaptive spark alive as doors to Northern skills and skilled jobs slammed shut. An "unidentified 38-year...
Megan Lesser '78, Leverett House committee chairman, said yesterday impetus for the restrictions came from approximately 20 house residents. The committee then voted to hold a referendum "because of the sensitivity of the issue," Lesser said...
Soon after Dean Rosovsky commissioned a review of undergraduate education in 1974, it became clear that the primary impetus for change would come out of two task forces: curriculum and concentrations...