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...ruling said Title VII does not require that an employer hire the most qualified person Munson said. "The employer need only show that his choice was based on 'neutral reasons' and that such reasons were not in reality a pretext for discrimination...
...fact that they will have to carry a carnet de change, a kind of financial passport complete with a photograph of the bearer, as they pass across the national frontier. Said the usually pro-Socialist newspaper Le Monde: "France is copying the East bloc countries. On the pretext of saving foreign currency, it is setting up a gigantic control system in order to hinder the freedom to come...
...unemployment on reservations at about 40 percent: the figure may be high as 80 percent Clearly, the development projects begun by some tribes (such as tapping energy resources) cannot immediately or completely answer this pressing level of hardship. Calls for tribal self-sufficiency, in this light, become an Administration pretext for abandoning Native Americans...
None of these cases is so revolutionary as to warrant the Justice Department's comment or intervention; rather, each seems a new pretext for the Administration to assert its predetermined stance on civil rights policies. Even the Boston case, which presents the legitimate constitutional question of whether seniority plans are exempt from remedial affirmative action, is by no means a glaring case of unwarranted reverse discrimination. All race-conscious hiring plans seem destined to create some backlash for white workers, and courts have repeatedly asserted that it is not unreasonable to ask whites to forego advantage they enjoy because...
...temptress Kundry (Edith Clever). This apparently signifies Parsifal's transformation from a callow youth to a hero, as Krick's grim, Joan of Arc visage emphasizes. Yet the device, like so many others in the film, is arbitrary. Wagner's opera is merely a pretext for the director, a frame on which to hang a murky, convoluted and, finally, not very original cultural thesis. The performance is led with surprising authority and eloquence by the little-known Swiss conductor Armin Jordan and features splendid singing by Tenor Reiner Goldberg as Parsifal and Mezzo Yvonne Minton as Kundry...