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...that I object to the Oscars in theory. I see no reason why excellence in moviemaking should not be rewarded just as excellence in athletic performance or scientific achievement. Such awards should of course serve the purpose of celebrating those who have made a lasting contribution to art. But they should serve a higher function as well. Awards are not for those who receive them but for those who do not; they establish a cannon of taste, set a standard for quality in artistic achievement and defy the aspiring artist in the audience to come up with something better. Awards...
...uniformity, indoctrinating its future managers at Hamburger University, where they learn that a 5-gal. pickle pail must contain at least 3,000 slices. On the other hand, McDonald's realizes that corporate headquarters is not always the best place to come up with market-sensitive ideas. One object lesson was a headquarters brainstorm years ago known as the Hulaburger, a pineapple-and-cheese combination that flopped in a big way. By contrast, the Big Mac, Egg McMuffin and McD.L.T. were all dreamed up by individual McDonald's operators...
...coach in the film, like Hayes at Ohio State, once punched a player and disappeared. But the object of his assault, much more like Knight, was his own player. Knight regards himself as a teacher with a classroom full of difficult students, though he is no missionary. "The state of Indiana pays the corrections officer one salary and me another. Let him work with the incorrigibles." Knight only treats them like incorrigibles...
Starting in the next few weeks, Williams plansto notify everyone who is hiring newadministrators about Harvard's affirmative actiongoals in their area. "The object is to getminorities involved in the search when it starts,"he said...
...MEMBERS of this community object to the University's insistence on freedom of speech and movement for all visitors, no matter how controversial the visitors' views. But at times proponents of these high-minded principles fail to consider individual situations in a practical and reasonable manner. Citing the necessity of maintaining basic freedoms at an academic institution, many people have condemned protesters for blocking two to three exits of the Science Center auditorium in which Duke Kent-Brown, a South African diplomat, appeared last month. But those who employ such rhetoric to criticize the protesters tend to ignore the legitimate...