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...increasing teacher militance all over the U.S. is only one sign of the deep-rooted changes affecting the nation's 2,160,000 public school teachers. Only a decade or so ago, teaching was regarded as a job offering a modicum of prestige if not much money, a secure future and lots of vacation. Indeed, mothers used to urge their college-age daughters to get a teacher's certificate as insurance against bad times...
...stewardess in search of an Upper East Side singles bar; and if Ruby Dee's Gertrude is capable of loving either Claudius or Hamlet, it will certainly be news to them. Only Larry Gates, doubling as Polonius and the First Gravedigger, emerges from this fiasco with a modicum of merit...
...varieties: the "aristocratic" and the "democratic." In the former version, decisions about who wins and who loses the competition are the prerogative of the people at the top of the system. Without any formalized standards to guide them, one simply hopes that the judges possess at least a modicum of fairness. In the "democratic" or "common-man" version of meritocracy, one can be less dependent on the judges' individual qualities, since by means of uniform tests and other impersonal criteria the question of who wins and who loses becomes much less a matter of any one person's whim...
...believe that the major sources of conflict [between President Bok and the DuBois Institute Student Coalition (DISC)] are the gradual redefinition of the nature of the Institute, and the gradual exclusion of students from even a modicum of input into the planning and eventual governing of the Institute...
...always, there were some Manhattanites who found a modicum of merit in phonelessness. "No dance lesson salesmen, no bill collectors, no heavy breathers," said Gidon Gottlieb, professor of law at New York University. "Silence, it's wonderful...