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...enthusiast who wants to play eclectic chamber music--who's got the talent, to boot-but lacks the needed assortment of players? The one lucky enough to have the financial and administrative wherewithal sets up an organization to perform the music on a semi-regular basis, like violinist Martha Potter has. Potter has planted the seeds of the Ariel Chamber Ensemble, that will bare its first petals in Friday night's debut in Sanders Theater...
...Justice Potter Stewart: [The University of California's admission system] did put a limit on the number of white people, didn...
...only too familiar with John Fox. He took the Quad. which was once a strong and supportive community whose sole crime was its not being, and not wanting to be, Harvard, and put the final touches on its dismemberment. It is a shame that it is gone. (Trevor Potter's pathetic defense of the Fox Plan in the Independent, 10/6/77, notwithstanding.) It is most encouraging now to see that everyone else agrees with us about Fox's incorrectness about both means and ends. We were beginning to wonder if our perceptions were distorted--after all, it was so quiet last...
...Country is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma-inside cellophane. The setting is a seedy, book-infested cottage in the woods. Hilary (Alec Guinness) and his wife Bron (Rachel Kempson) potter around, she arranging flowers and he devising puzzles...
Specifically, the court ruled that a seniority system was not necessarily illegal even if its effect was to favor white males over others in bidding for promotions, protection from layoffs and similar benefits of years on the job. Justice Potter Stewart, expressing the majority's opinion, wrote that "bona fide" seniority systems with no overt racial underpinnings are not unlawful, even though such systems may in practice have the impact of discriminating against certain workers. As for discrimination that occurred prior to passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the court ruled that "no person may be given retroactive...