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Anyone who hoped that the General Motors strike would end before the first snowfall had cause to ponder a union vote last week in the Detroit suburb of Warren, Mich. It is the site of G.M.'s technical center, where the company is developing antipollution systems and shock-resistant bumpers. The company asked Local 160 of the United Auto Workers to allow 306 strikers to return to work on these special projects. A top U.A.W. official urged the members to agree, especially since improved pollution control is one of the union's demands. To the surprise...
Walzer is sometimes careless with that peculiar vocabulary of political philosophy-the "careful words." as John Schaar calls them, which one must ponder deeply. It would help, for instance, to distinguish "obligations." the subject of the book, from "patriotism" or "loyalties" which also influence and spring from moral choices. These are not the same things. They operate at different but overlapping levels of awareness. Loyalty seems a more comprehensive and powerful motive force than "obligation." a word which implies formal duties and rational ranking of commitments. How do these fit into Walzer's hierarchy? A glossary or an expository chapter...
These exercises in nostalgia will be no help for the Dylan faithful, who regularly look to him for an indication of pop music's next new direction. The best they can do is ponder several of the new Dylan songs that seem to be exploratory sketches from a low-key musical notebook. There is, for example, Wigwam, in which Dylan goes "da-da-da-da" to a slow marching tune while-believe it or not-a choir of bugles and low brass urges him along...
Though his statement caused even election-law experts to ponder the legal implications, the gambit amounted to very little. Goldberg was still the party's official designee, which means that his name will appear automatically on the June primary ballot. However, his backers will also circulate nominating petitions, the procedure that others without the blessing of the party must follow to get on the ballot. Though some of the opposition may drop out, Goldberg's major competition for the nomination currently includes Robert Morgenthau, the former U.S. Attorney in New York; Eugene Nickerson, Nassau county executive; and Howard...
...Governor playing politics with the university? Of course-and so is the university. How a citizenry wants its children educated is a perfectly legitimate political issue. In California, though, the combatants are so angry that few ponder the real problem: the role of today's university. "Nearly all our troubles go back to one basic difficulty," says U.C.L.A. Chancellor Charles Young. "There is no consensus as to what the university is, what its function is, and in what its importance to society consists." Until there is, universities and politicians will play politics...