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...that every school in every community must always reflect the racial composition of the school system as a whole." By thus accentuating the negative, Burger appeared to make it even more difficult for beleaguered school authorities to implement busing plans. Said one official: "Swann was supposed to be a landmark, but it's beginning to look like more of a barrier...
...landmark. There's a yard with rhinoceri, but this is the right one. I did this yesterday...
...federal bureaucracy is a huge, slumbering monster which, through apathy, nullifies the hopes for racial justice created by the landmark civil rights legislation of the '60s. That was the gist of a report issued seven months ago by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Last week the commission announced the results of a Government-wide progress check. Said the commission chairman, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame: While much remains to be done, "the dinosaur has finally opened...
...After the match the team celebrated the landmark in Harvard sport history with champagne. Washauer led a toast with a few well-chosen words, "Here's to the first 300, and may there be 300 more...
These days, any experienced romantic reader would greet each page like a fond landmark on a trip back home. Martha is a typical heroine: shy but proud, quick with the truth but slow to subtlety, attractive in certain lights but no raving beauty. Connan is a worthy offspring of Mr. Rochester, a weary, sardonic fellow who never gets around to explaining the only thing the heroine has to know. Romantic props abound: deliciously enigmatic dreams, shadows in windows, gossiping servants, a horse that throws the child. Even the nomenclature is classic: Alvean, Gillyflower, Celestine...