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Racism in admissions policies at the GSAS evinces itself in a peculiar "feet caught in the bureaucratic mire" inaction. Although it is clear that the active recruiting policies of the late '60s did bring in a significantly increased number of minority applicants--the 31 enrolled in 1970 were an all-time high--the recruiting of the '70s has been, at best, perfunctory. The business of recruitment continues as a mere adjunct of the regular admissions process. No successor has yet been found for Joseph Strickland, assistant dean of the GSAS, killed in 1972, whose job it was to head minority...
...admission, Hackman grabbed unselectively at too many of them and bogged down in a mire of forgettable films (The Split, Marooned). "You have to recognize," he says, "that there's a monster out there called unemployment." Finally one of the offers turned out to be for the part of the long-suffering son in I Never Sang for My Father. Hackman's engaging, sensitive portrayal won him a second Oscar nomination last year for Best Supporting Actor. Largely on the strength of that, he made his connection with Popeye (others who were considered for the role: Jimmy Breslin...
...thrust into a position of national power at a time when his actual strength was limited--and threatened by the cataclysms of pre-Civil War America. Buchanan had successfully risen above personal traumas in his love-life and in a tawdry Pennsylvania political arena: he got caught in the mire of an unfinished capital and unsophisticated state system once he got to the White House...
...thrust into a position of national power at a time when his actual strength was limited--and threatened by the cataclysms of pre-Civil War America. Buchanan had successfully risen above personal traumas in his love-life, and in a tawdry Pennsylvania political arena; he got caught in the mire of an unfinished capital and unsophisticated state system once he got to the White House...
Albert Bradford's way out--a consumptive involvement with drugs--was actually only a means of getting deeper into the mire. He became a part of the ghetto's plankton, drifting in the flow of the demand and supply of junk and junk money. "By the time I was 16, I was so hooked on skag all I could see was drugs. When I saw dollar bills. I saw skag...