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...more than three decades, the tall, big-boned prelate towered over the commissars as the most influential figure in Poland: spiritual leader of the nation's overwhelmingly (90%) Roman Catholic population, outspoken advocate of social and political rights, defiant symbol of Polish nationalism under the shadow of Soviet domination. When he died of abdominal cancer in Warsaw last week at the age of 79, he left behind the most powerful Catholic Church in the East bloc-and a nation whose political awakening has shaken the Communist world to its core...
...Faculty still had no women, though it had several in earlier years. Among today's departments. Rosovsky says. "I do not believe it is a question of discrimination on average, but there may have been some." Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure and an outspoken opponent of affirmative action, agrees, saying. "I am not cognizant of any discrimination on grounds of sex in Harvard appointments." One female professor, however, says she speaks for her female colleagues in saying of women professors, "You're intimidated, there's a great deal of pressure on you, you can be blacklisted...
...more important question: what do you do with them? The academic can ponder this without forcing the issue, but the director faces it each working day. If you search back in Brustein's writings to his earlier, theoretical broadsides like "No More Master-pieces," you'll find there an outspoken defense of the text against directorial depredations. Brustein argued that the text was the director's treasure house--by mastering it, he could find the appropriate way to direct a play, the right metaphors, emphases and designs. The only other options are to impose external ideas on the play...
...meetings that followed during the next two days, Schmidt was his usual bristly, outspoken self. One of his primary concerns was what he perceives as the Administration's strident saber-rattling against the Soviet Union. The Chancellor has become increasingly critical of Soviet expansionism in the past year. At the same time he fears that the U.S. is not trying hard enough to open a dialogue with the Soviets and thus defuse East-West tensions. "Schmidt wants to be assured that our policy toward the Soviet Union is more than one of simple hostility," said a senior U.S. diplomat...
...Miami. Son of an English army captain and a Jamaican native, he founded his band, the Wailers, in 1964, but did not achieve commercial success until more than a decade later. Marley, whose song I Shot the Sheriff was made a hit by Eric Clapton in 1974, was an outspoken advocate of Rastafarianism, a Jamaica-based political-religious cult embracing a variety of ideas and trends: reggae music, marijuana use, a return to the "promised land" in Africa and belief in the divinity of the late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia...