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...still gut reactions based on the future implications of affirmative action. And because they were acts of outrage rather than attacks based on empirical data, they have been easily parried. The best recent counter-argument to those extolling meritocracy appeared in the briefs supporting the University of Washington against Marco DeFunis in 1974. Many briefs contended that very few hiring and admissions decisions are based solely on merit--and that race could play just as much a role as old boy networks, family ties, and patronage--and other distortions of the supposed meritocracy...
Lindsay's prose, by comparison, seems set down by the numbers: "Mayor James Carr sat heavily in his big leather chair behind his littered desk in the handsome office in downtown San Marco." If Buckley has written Frank Merriwell Joins the CIA, Lindsay's lumbering parable could be subtitled Seven Years in May. The time is the not too distant future. Runaway unemployment and racial strife have brought about two years of martial law in America. Before Congress is a "Special Powers" bill that will eliminate virtually all civil liberties. "There may be," a Justice Department official concedes...
...second period, coach Scalise substituted freely but his team continued to score. With more than 17 minutes left in the game, Marco Williams set up Steve Smith for Harvard's third goal. As they had in the first half, fullbacks Bill For-bush, Dave Rand and Ralph Earle, along with sweeper Antonio Ardila, moved the ball up to the offense and shut off the few scoring rushes that Amherst could muster...
...FRESHMAN SOCCER team rallied from a two-goal deficit yesterday to defeat the Excter varsity 3-2. Peter Schulte scored with just 30 seconds remaining in the game to win it for Harvard. Antonio Ardila and Marco Williams had the other two yardling scores...
INVISIBLE CITIES is an allegory for the mind. Its language, imagery, patterns create a sense of grace and lyricism seldom found in modern realistic fiction, but the joys and the sorrows of this book are cerebral ones, except twice. Once, almost in spite of Calvino's coolly allegorical portrait, Marco Polo expands, just for a moment, into a human character. The emperor has asked him why, in all his tales, he never speaks of Venice, and the explorer responds in restrained, formal language...