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President Bok convened an ad hoe Committee in May to consider Southern, William Shack, an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, and Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro American Studies...
...ability in athletics; singing, dancing, pimping and mugging; hating whites and not being too smart." This definition of blackness, say the authors, can lead to "absolute terror" and conflict in those black teens "who would like to have friendships with blacks or whites, who enjoy Beethoven as much as Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul, who prefer algebra to basketball...
...Isaac met Pollock in 1946 and purchased his first Pollock after that meeting. He acquired his most valuable Pollock, the recovered painting...
...light on in his room until he was 30 is enough to keep the coward from combat. It is on the battlefield, with some astonishingly evocative camera work, that the director-writer-star sends up Russian literature and never lets it come down. It is as if one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Hasidic schoolboys were managing Tolstoy's estate and Dostoevsky's psychoses. The Brothers Karamazov meet the Brothers Marx; the epic of War and Peace is reduced to a battle of church and shtetl; Boris scatters Yiddishisms and one-liners all the way back...
...nominations except for the Isaac one were sent to the ad hoc committee by a special subcommittee of the Faculty Council set up in October of this academic year to process all candidates nominated by a specific department for joint tenure in that department and Afro...