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...that the commissions are the galvanizing force behind most environmental legislation here." Pushed by the commissions, for example, Massachusetts recently enacted a law that permits a landowner to keep his property while selling the development rights to a town, city or charitable organization, thus permanently protecting the area as open space. It is the slickest-and cheapest -scheme for land-banking since former Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall encouraged the idea of buying the rights to a property's scenery...
...borders, helped immeasurably by an implicit appeal to regional traditions. For one, the basic unit of government in New England is the town, and commissions fit easily into the scheme of town meetings. For another, given state and federal matching funds, the local governments were able to buy open land by putting up as little as 25% of the money. No Yankee could resist such a bargain...
After Massachusetts, Connecticut has had the best experience with conservation commissions. Working with schools, the commissions have helped to create educational parks. Building public support, they have pressed laws through the state legislature giving tax breaks to farmers and other landowners who want to keep their lands open. Says Gay Ewing, president of the Connecticut Association of Conservation Commissions: "Faced with an environment that's going downhill, people get discouraged about their power to change things. But with a commission on the scene, people begin to feel that they can start to do something...
...Davis firing has brought the U.C.L.A. faculty and administration into open rebellion against the regents' Reagan-dominated majority. At a recent emergency meeting, the faculty overwhelmingly condemned the regents' action as illegal and an infringement on academic freedom. Many feared that the firing may blunt the school's drive to recruit black faculty members, who presently number 25 in a full-time staff of 1,500. Warned the professors: "If a faculty member can be fired for entertaining radically divergent views about the structure of our society and the solutions to its problems, this recruitment program will...
Like all of Chekhov, The Three Sisters is open to several interpretations, but to make it insipid, boring and silly requires Ball's gall as well as his company's ineptitude. As the guest director of Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear, Gower Champion manages to intrude defects on the play that it never possessed. Feydeau was to the French bedroom farce what Einstein was to the theory of relativity. With gimmicks and gaucherie, Champion botches all of Feydeau's intricately precise equations of who-is-sleeping-with-whom-be-hind-which-door...