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...standard of condemnation for the world that makes it a mistake. "One may know by your Kiss, that your Gin is excellent," Mr. Peachum remarks, but his less capable daughter can only explain sorrowfully that she can't stop loving her husband--and that, coupled with the wit implicit in a good production, is what carries The Beggar's Opera beyond cynicism into anger...
Neither translation hides the self-denial implicit in Svejk's pretensions to imbecility, relieved chiefly by his ability to laugh at all the people he fools, or the callousness, however humorous, that's necessary to his survival. Early in the book, for instance, he asks the wife of an arrested bartender about her husband...
Although Seth Kupferberg may be correct in his theory about Bok's idea of wanting "to extend to the Houses the sort of centralized, streamlined, standardized efficiency implicit in things like Hall's reorganization of Building and Grounds," the appointment of Professor Vorenberg as Master of Dunster House has not had the negative effect that the theory implies. The Vorenbergs have given a new vitality to the House attacking the inertia of both the students and Building and Grounds. The Master has consistently championed the cause of Dunster House itself, as well as that of the House system...
After years of incremental progress in token minority admissions, colleges began full-scale programs to bring minority enrollment to the level in the overall population. Whether rigid or merely implicit, these programs took the shape of a quota system for minority admissions. This practice has provoked an outcry of "reverse discrimination" from whites who say blacks and other minorities don't have to work as hard to get into college...
...wanted to extend to the Houses the sort of centralized, streamlined, standardized efficiency implicit in things like Hall's reorganization of Buildings and Grounds, Kiely or Peretz or Vorenberg might be the sort of people he'd appoint, and he might well appoint them only for five-year terms...