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...University should not agree to use the names of donors when it knows that "their lives and conduct are in plain conflict with the values and ideals of the institution," said Bok. However, these judgments must be made with great discretion, and it is generally imprudent to remove someone's name after memorializing...
Unfortunately, drawing the line between illegal distortion and just plain bad distortion probably impossible. Such contracts run the risk of outlawing appropriate improvements and adjustments, crippling creativity, and sapping the vitality of theater for future generations. If, to protect themselves, authors must state detailed production criteria, it is better to grant generous production rights rather than handcuff directors. Such artistic freedom will, in the long run, benefit theater. And it is worth the risk of an occasional wayward production...
Night. A train bearing more modest English visitors, Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore, chuffs and hoots across the plains. They are on their way to visit the latter's son in Chandrapore, where he serves the British raj as city magistrate. Adela, plain but secretly a spirited young woman, contemplates marrying him. But in her berth she dreams vaguely of adventure, of discovering what she likes to call "the real India." Outside, the real India broods enigmatically, and we see the train from another of the subcontinent's perspectives, as a tiny toy almost lost at its feet...
...Barry wants to go out in a blaze of glory," says former Arizona Republican Chairman Harry Rosenzweig. G.O.P. Congressman John McCain of Arizona, who may run for Goldwater's empty seat in 1986, thinks his timid colleagues are secretly pleased by the plain-spoken provocations. Says McCain: "When you hear Barry Goldwater make a statement, and God knows he's quotable, the sentiment on the Hill is, 'Thank God Barry said what I didn't dare...
...N.E.H. prescription for this deep malaise is a reshaping of "undergraduate curricula based on a clear vision of what constitutes an educated person." The Bennett report makes plain its own vision...