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...opens up still another Pandora's box of troubles in the department, controversies that can be reduced to two basic developments: the introduction of joint tenure appointments in Afro over the last few years and the case of Isaac, which underscores the tenure problems peculiar to Afro, in the judgement of many students and some junior faculty members...
...judgement of voices--thankfully--is a highly subjective process. Dogma has no place in art. Politics and religion seem to satisfy man's need for pigheadedness. But there is similarly no need to be pigheaded in favor of Pavarotti's voice, an attitude which I'm afraid has become far too widespread lately, swooning at the mention of his name and fainting at the sound of his voice is chic nowadays. Quite frankly, he's a second rate tenor in an era when first rate tenors seem to be extinct...
...plus one additional renewal year. After that year, the players became free agents, able to offer their skills to the highest bidder. Seitz declared that the Uniform Players Contract did not grant a club a perennial option to an athlete's services. It is no wonder that this sweeping judgement, which obliterated the binding labor rules that had persisted for nearly one hundred years, thrust the major leagues into an unprecedented uproar...
...history of rock has been overlooked or left out. When the occasional venture into hyperbole does arise, it is easy to forgive since, almost always, it is the product of genuine enthusiasm: for example, when Greil Marcus in his article on the Beatles eagerly concurs with the judgement that "The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the 'Sgt. Pepper' album was released"; or when Robert Christgau compares Chuck Berry's lyrics to Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past...
...about Harvard's calendar. Just because most other colleges in the country schedule finals before Christmas doesn't make it right; but when your own students are unhappy then maybe it's time to change. I earnestly hope, for everyone's sake, that the faculty will exercise wisdom and judgement by subordinating its self-interest to the wishes of the students. Michael Korn...