Word: prima
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...eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas." The New York Yankees? No, according to Justice Harry Blackmun, 75, the members of the U.S. Supreme Court. Blackmun made that and a number of other engagingly informal observations about his colleagues last week during a three-day visit to Dartmouth College. "One of us we call 'the warden's friend' because he always votes against the poor prisoner who wants to get out," he told an audience of students, faculty and the public. Another is " 'the pornographer's friend' because he's a First Amendment...
...United Nations General Assembly resolution, seemed to be what most members had on their minds last week as they voted, 108 to 9, to "deeply deplore" the Reagan Administration's invasion of Grenada. In the U.N. majority's eyes, the U.S. action seemed to provide a prima-facie case of the kind of direct intervention that has long been for bidden by international law. But to many international legal scholars, the issues raised by the fighting in the Caribbean are more complicated. Says British Lawyer N.A. Maryan Green: "Our present-day notions of aggression are antiquated. The invasion...
...incongruence of the analogy. First, police officers administer the alcohol tests only after a reasonable suspicion of drunk driving (weaving, excessive speed, etc.); under the Reagan plan, employees undergo random tests regardless of criminal suspicion. And second, the precisions of alcohol tests--accurate to several decimal places--provides prima facie evidence of guilt; while results of polygraph tests are haphazard at best. The arbitrary application of lie-detector tests coupled with their dubious reliability belies our ideal of painstaking procedural due process. Perhaps Richard Nixon put it best when he remarked in one of the Watergate tapes...
SOME HARVARD PRIMA DONNAS used to grouse that Sellars treated them like his hobby, puppets. Sellars' novel device in Pericles actually does just that--turns actors into puppets, using plastic masks on the evil characters. The technique produces an eerie, sinister effect; the masks, sometimes grotesque, sometimes animal, sometimes human, look frighteningly real. Though without masks, Pericles, Thaisa and Marina are equally un rounded as characters; when Lysimachus removes his mask repenting of his past ways, the easy gimmick becomes a tour de force...
...hard to reject, prima facie, the reasons Harvard gave for discarding the program. Fiscal squeezes are the rule these days around the University, after all, and there is no reason to sink extra money into job placement, worthy as it is, before more fundamental tasks--from scholarships to junior faculty salaries. Moreover, with the perennially tight academic job market showing signs of opening up after two decades, it may well be a good time to reevaluate Harvard's approach to career placement for graduate students. Harvard officials promise, finally, to explore other ways to help Ph.D.'s enter...