Word: mantras
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This sentence has become a mantra for those concerned with Harvard's commitment to faculty diversity and a springboard for newspapers across the nation to point out Rudenstine's perceived hypocracy...
...power, namely Nike. Indeed, the two most compelling commercials on that ESPN telecast were Nike productions that ended with its trademark swoosh: "Thank you, Jackie Robinson," in which African-American ballplayers expressed their gratitude to Robinson, and "I am Tiger Woods," in which children of all races say that mantra before heading out to the golf course...
...underlying "problem" of the lack of minority professors is more complex than the protesters mantra of inaction suggests. Turnover in academia depends on openings due to retirement, job transfers and death. Change must necessarily be slow. When making an appointment, a university must look to the quality of instructors in the specific field. While there might be, for example, a preponderance of minority candidates in the sciences, those people do not help fill a vacancy in fine arts...
...their fingers at California, where belief is famously privatized, and reality, as in some dumbed-down version of Emerson, is often regarded as a vanity plate to be custom-made. In the privileged town of Santa Barbara, California, where I sit, the hills are alive with the sound of mantra--from John-Roger, the Texan guru of Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, down the road; from the New Age preacher Marianne Williamson, closer to downtown; and even from the radio station on which I heard last week a minister speak rabidly of the Second Coming and Foxe's Book of Martyrs...
...Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields was founded in 1959 by Sir Neville Marriner--the other half of the radio mantra--as a small chamber ensemble without a conductor. Its name comes from the church in London's Trafalgar Square in which it originally performed. Since then the Academy has grown, performing and touring as a chamber ensemble and expanding at times to a full symphony orchestra. The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields is responsible for almost 1,000 recordings, more than any other chamber orchestra in the world. It is known popularly for its recordings...