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...history?an educated army of 816,000?is entering America's certified credential society and learning to its sorrow that a degree is no guarantee of a suitable job. Like the dollar, the diploma seems to have been devalued. At Boston's Northeastern University, a sign in the placement office reads "Grave New World...
...entering graduate students; on the women considered for any appointments made that year; on the relative allocation of funds and fellowships (including teaching fellowships) to men and women; and on the relative success (and reasons for lack of success) in placing male and female graduate students who desire job placement. The Dean shall supply this information to the committee, which shall then consult directly with any department whose report is unsatisfactory. The Permanent Committee shall also require and receive, through the Dean's office, reports from the Masters of Houses, the Committee on General Education, and the head...
...denies viewers the chance to follow Warhol's extraordinary range in his exploration of impersonality, and one gets little sense of the roots of his style. For instance, the Do It Yourself pastiches of painting-by-number-kits are excluded. These, with their sharp colors and cunning placement, are among the most formally beautiful things Warhol has made-besides providing added testaments to Warhol's literal belief in the endless reproducibility...
...further criticism last year when the New York Times released a memorandum he had written to President Nixon, arguing for a policy of "benign neglect" toward blacks. The report urged Nixon to provide a welfare allowance for black families, but not to press for programs of retraining and job placement...
...first person documentary," is frequently incoherent. Events slide past the screen with little connecting tissue. Though all the narration is spoken by Hopper himself, and though he makes clear that he approved of what is shown, the film's point-of-view is established only by the random placement of the camera. Its subjects unashamedly play to it, and it unashamedly records them. But it is placed pretty stupidly (by former photo-journalist Schiller); only when it fades into the background to record some extravagant event does the film achieve an authentic portrait of Hopper...