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Some federal officials agree that attempts to apply equal opportunity in the loftier reaches of academe have been somewhat ill considered. But Dr. Mary M. Lepper of HEW's Office for Civil Rights counters that too often "women and minorities are being hired and let go -it is a revolving door." She adds that Lester's complaints about ruptured faculty traditions and standards are "based in mythology." In fact, surveys have shown that from 1968 to 1972, the number of blacks on college faculties increased only from 2.2% to 2.9%, the number of women from...
...sure, these 33 hours or so of recorded talks are a minuscule fraction of Richard Nixon's presidential conversations?and, one can only hope, the grubbiest fraction. The transcripts might not necessarily be representative of the way he always conducts business; the language and tone may be loftier and more dignified when he confers with, say, Henry Kissinger or other officials. Despite the indecipherable passages and inelegant language, however, the transcripts yield an absorbing insight into the inner workings of Nixon's White House and of the President's mind. Some noteworthy examples follow...
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, with Nicolai Gedda, Jules Bastin, Josephine Veasey (London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Colin Davis conducting; Philips; 3 LPs; $20.94). This work exists on one of the composer's loftier plateaus of the mind rather than on a workable theatrical level. Thus Damnation is in many ways especially well suited to armchair listening. Continuing his masterly unprecedented series devoted to Berlioz's major works, Davis again conducts with suave professionalism and lightning-like flashes of insight and revelation...
When a singularly undistinguished book written in 1943 is the subject of review in a recent Crimson (November 8th), one suspects that the review serves a loftier purpose. And indeed after several paragraphs of critical subterfuge the real purpose of Mr. Geoffrey Garin's review of Katherine Chorley's Armies and the Art of Revolution emerges. Mr. Garin is worried about the lack of effective civilian control of the military and he correspondingly calls for the re-introduction of compulsory military service as a means of overcoming this problem...
FORTUNATELY, the growing supports for the NLF did not force radicals to adopt tactics markedly different from those of liberals who fought the was on loftier, more abstract moral grounds. The goals for both groups was the same: an immediate end to American military involvement in Indochina. The liberals wanted the killing to stop; the radicals wanted the killing to stop...