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...several ways. It will be administered by a state university. The business contri bu tions presumably will be tax-de ductible. Above all, the Oseola McCarty Scholarship Fund--and in deed all private, so-called voluntary affirmative action--causes the govern ment to be racially biased in its po l icy toward private discrimination. The government would quickly step in to stop even a sweet old lady from setting up a whites-only scholarship fund. That would clearly violate about 18 laws, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act. So those who insist that the 1964 act--and civil rights principles...
...fiction--no, scratch that, a testament of bitter truth--that answers a question unasked since the dawn of literature: What is a mortgage bond? The answer in Bombardiers (Random House; 319 pages; $22) seems to be: That which the selling of makes your teeth itch. The first sentence of Po Bronson's desperate, funny, booklong rant at bucket-shop marketing of financial chaos neatly pelletizes his entire volume: "It was a filthy profession, but the money was addicting, and one addiction led to another, and they were all going to hell...
...wonder that the work Twombly was doing 30 years ago, before the debate about Post-Modernism blew up, now seems like a talisman to certain Post- Modernists. Po-Mo's relation to the past was all about the sort of skittering, rather affectless quotation, the shoring of fragments against the ruins, that is written all over Twombly's work. One detects the artist's own hand behind the hyperbole of his admirers. But he is still a considerable painter...
There is treachery in the North. In its provincial elections on September 12, the Canadian province of Quebec overwhelmingly elected a separatist government which threatens to turn the province into a new North American republic, leader of the winning (PO) and Quebec's next premier, plans to engineer Quebec's separating from Canada whether the people like...
...only because Wills is incapable of writing a really dull page. The author has a splendid ability to characterize his subjects. He reminds us, for example, that Washington was as accomplished an autodidact as Lincoln and that the famous portraits of the Father of our Country as an unsmiling, po-faced stuffed shirt do an injustice to someone whose contemporaries thought him the livest of wires, even in a room with the likes of Franklin and Jefferson...