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...views demonstrate, the triumph of stagecraft lies in the change from perception affecting reality to perception being reality. The only question now is why the Potemkin plan should be limited to slum housing when it could just as well be applied to all kinds of problems that bedevil officialdom...
Like any movie (overtly political or not) with a strong point of view, Boat People is propaganda. Most of Vietnamese officialdom is polite but abrupt, in a hurry to build a model Marxist nation. The film's heroes are the "misfits" who anchor their dreams in the past or launch them into the faraway future. One aging captain of the revolution, educated in France many years earlier, drowns his disappointments in French poetry and the company of a backstreets madam. A boy of about ten, godfathered by American G.I.s, has the randy strut and rancid mouth of a pint...
...there is one presumption underlying the entire process of administrative compensation, it is that in a university setting, the salaries of officialdom can never be made a higher priority than those of Faculty. Even administrators with no Faculty experience quickly stress that Harvard's tenured Faculty is paid as well as any and better than most, and that that fact matters most of them. As Bok himself notes, in a study of administrative salaries. "We would make a decent showing, but I do not believe we would be number one, the way we are with faculty...
Rabbi Balfour Brickner, a longtime social-action official for Reform Judaism, has battled Catholic officialdom on abortion. Yet he says of the nuclear issue, "They let us carry the ball alone for too long. Bring on the bishops!" But Archbishop Peter Gerety, 70, of Newark, warns, "We have to make clear that we are not trying to write legislation or elect politicians." In some cases bishops have veered close to doing both on the abortion issue...
Beyond mere words we must work to change how officialdom treat us. It is up to us to see that the staff of UHS is aware of out needs and is prepared to fulfill them. We must see to that the frightened freshman seeking to understand how he or she differs from society's norms is not devastated through contact with an insensitive counselor. We must see to it that our physical health does not suffer because our doctors fail to ask the right questions...