Word: konner
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...Konner, the first woman to hold the job, seems well prepared for what she calls the "challenge of helping journalism define itself." A 1961 graduate of the school, she boasts an impressive set of journalistic credentials, including more than 20 years as a documentary producer for NBC News and public television, where she has had a long partnership with Bill Moyers. "She's a solid, substantive journalist with lots of integrity," says Professor Kenneth Goldstein. Equally important, Konner is said to be a good administrator who knows how to raise money. From her spot on the university board...
...University's Graduate School of Journalism, there was one conspicuous absence: the school's dean. The university had been unable to fill that prominent post ever since former Newsweek Editor in Chief Osborn Elliott resigned two years ago. Last week Columbia President Michael Sovern finally announced a successor: Joan Konner, 57, a veteran television-documentary producer and a Columbia trustee since 1978. "She's been a very serious possibility from the beginning," said Sovern. "We didn't want anyone to think that we'd gone soft and were just taking the easy...
...Stone sequels. Succumbing to the xerox-machine method of screenwriting and directing which characterized the trend-setting originals of this genre, Raiders of the Lost Ark and its arklet, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, film executives Michael Douglas, Lewis Teague and chief xeroxers Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner have produced an entirely familiar if less satisfying version of the entertaining 1983 romantic, romancing, thriller...
...Douglas and Kathleen Turner, sends them off to an Arab emirate, then gives them nothing to do but market their charisma. In the first film, Turner intoxicated as a drab novelist who blossomed into a spunky heroine; here, she is fighting only celebrity veg-out. Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner's plot, which amounts to a series of enforced aerobic exertions, matches the two funsters with a cartel of shifty Arabs and a tribe of gullible black Africans. (But my, can they dance!) Every Third World racial cliche is put into the service of derring-do recycled by Director Lewis...
...perhaps more importantly, Konner falls into the "fallacy of biological determinism," so aptly termed by Professor Richard Lewontin several years ago (The Sciences March/April, 1976). That is, even if there were substantial evidence that male-female roles or any human social behavior was influenced by our biology, this would not tell us anything about how much behavior could be changed. As Ashley Montage points out in his book Learning Non-Aggression, which describes a number of societies where aggression is minimal. "Human beings can learn virtually anything. Among other things they can learn to be virtually unaggressive." And even Konner...