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...shows, reruns of highly rated public-broadcasting programs (e.g., The Ascent of Man) that may not have been seen in some areas that cable now reaches. Superstations, however, are running into furious opposition from conventional broadcasters and their allies in the sports and entertainment worlds. MCA-Universal and Paramount are balking at selling any of their TV shows to Turner's Atlanta station, and the Los Angeles Dodgers are threatening to withdraw broadcast rights from KTTV if that Los Angeles station also goes on the satellite...
...withdraw from South Africa because it had not provided the University with enough information to judge the company's South African investments. But what about the eleven other corporations that thumbed their noses at Harvard? The University should not rely on the actions of others on this issue of paramount importance...
...That Paramount ad was chillingly effective, bringing into 670 theaters around the country thousands of youths keen to see The Warriors-and eager for trouble. Since the film opened on Feb. 9, three young men have been killed by Warrior-inspired fights, and other brawls have broken out at moviehouses in several cities. More than half a dozen theaters have dropped the film entirely; others are hiring some muscle of their own, which Paramount will pay for. In Washington, B.C., two full-time guards were on duty last week at the Town Downtown and will stay there until The Warriors...
Another explanation, however, is that the original ad, which Paramount has withdrawn, simply brought all the toughs in town to one spot, and trouble was sure to come with them. "If you bring that sort of crowd into the moviehouse," says one Paramount executive, "you will have the same trouble with The Sound of Music...
...preservation of the institution is of paramount importance. The institution's survival in fact "transcends the private interests of individual students and faculty members." One can recognize the protofascist shortcut developing here. Instead of the democratic process of individuals influencing groups and the institution, we have the institution influencing individuals. Everywhere in Bok's essay, collective expression is abhorred; isolated individual opinion is celebrated. Divide and conquer is the rule...