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Eklund dislikes such terms as "quotas" and "reverse discrimination." Instead, he speaks of "goals" and "accelerated development". He sets the the hiring and promotion goals and passes the word down from the top that managers had better mee them, "because it's part of their own performance evaluation...
SEIZURE by Charles I. Mee, Jr. M. Evans; 216 pages...
...this richly researched account of the case, Author Charles L. Mee Jr. Kazin (Meeting at Potsdam, A Visit to Haldeman and Other States of Mind) enters the territory of the brain like a 16th century explorer, carefully and vividly explaining the 100 billion neurons, the axons and synapses and neurotransmitters- all of the brain's intellectual brightwork, an area still so profoundly mysterious as to be almost unthinkable...
After his meeting with Haldeman, his mind cleared, Mee closes the book by pulling two appropriate tales from his past. One involves a happy day of love-making sometime in the late '60s--plucked out of the past to provide a relief from the tension that had been building in the book. And the last few pages relate an encounter Mee had with Arnold Toynbee, the British historian, in the early '70s. At the meeting, Mee put forth his elaborate theories about the course of Western civilization, but Toynbee apparently dozed through the tirade and didn't catch a word...
Like Toynbee, the reader probably won't remember much of the theorizing Mee lays out in his new book, but the state of mind Mee evokes is quite memorable. It is a reading of the national psyche. And if Mee ends the book with an unwarranted optimism about American democracy, one cannot fault his sense of the country's mood...