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Coach Carole Kleinfelder and the rest of the womens' basketball team have a goal for the season--to prove the above statements incorrect...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: Women Hoopsters' Season Begins Tonight in IAB | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

Ranking orchestras is a dubious business, but it would be incorrect to say the Boston Symphony is the best in the U.S., or even that there is a Big Five any more. The Cleveland Orchestra, under Lorin Maazel, has become the most beautifully balanced American ensemble, with the richest, warmest sound. The sheer virtuosity of Sir Georg Solti's Chicago Symphony is without peer domestically, whatever Solti's interpretive excesses. The other two members of the Big Five are the Philadelphia Orchestra, once magnificent but facing an uncertain future in the hands of its new music director, Riccardo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Centennial at Symphony | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...controversial--especially the one establishing minority representation on the council's administrative committee--several members said they expected the proposal to pass through the necessary channels with only minor changes. But judging from the reception their proposal has thus far received from students and Faculty members, their assumption was incorrect...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: No Modest Proposal | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...Mismeasure of Man. He examines past studies of human being's intellitence with the perspicuity expected of a careful scientist, showing where other researchers have erred before. He acquired the data that others had used to reach racist conclusions, recalculated the computations and reveals the mistakes and incorrect assumptions. Gould's reopening of the 19th- and early-20th-century studies could help close an era of racist preconceptions about intelligence...

Author: By James S. Mcguire, | Title: Heads & Brains, Large & Small | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

While his arguments about American society and government contain a good measure of truth, ne was incorrect in saying that Americans always seek instant gratification. For a decaying, myopic nation, the United States has adopted some rather farsighted programs. Environmental regulations and automobile efficiency standards, whether or not they are effective, exemplify a willingness to forego instant economic gain for long-term benefit. Furthermore, while Will was correct in diagnosing a propensity in our society for working to achieve personal gain, he erred in asserting that such a tendency has became a dominant and destructive force. Will himself acknowledged that...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: The Pursuit of Morality | 10/20/1981 | See Source »

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