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...will take a lot of positive feedback to counteract the massive negatives of American race attitudes, but as long as there are Kenneth Clarks around to prod consciences and prick rationalizations, there will be progress...
...bomb or demanding free speech. Carrying such signs as WHERE IS OUR FAMOUS GERMAN EDUCATION NOW?, the students were protesting the decline and fall of a school system that once was as synonymous with excellence as Swiss watches are in timekeeping. One newspaper called the demonstrations, designed to prod West Germany's two major political parties into pledging their support for better education, "the greatest student initiative since the revolution...
Tremendous Experience. Slater & Co. organized the nonpolitical council not only to lure more students into civil rights, but also to prod more lawyers into all kinds of public service. They got almost instant response. U.S. Senators, Wall Street lawyers and Ivy League law professors opened their wallets. A foundation put up $2,000; the American Civil Liberties Union contributed free office space in Manhattan. At Columbia, more than 300 students from 15 law schools attended the council's first big meeting. In Washington, Students Hirschkop (now a Virginia lawyer handling a key miscegenation case) and Richard Granat (Columbia...
...vision that provides the inner momentum. Simon rarely tosses a line straight up in the air for an isolated gag; he hits it across a net of personal relationships so that a steady volley of wit builds up out of character and situation. Simon also knows how to prod a cliché off its bed of banality so that it walks toward the brink of logical absurdity. "Who'd send a suicide telegram? Can you imagine getting a thing like that? You have to tip the kid a quarter." An entire rhetoric of expert timing is contained in Walter...
...parent company, the Radio Corporation of America, color it green. Under the prod of Board Chairman David Sarnoff, 74, the company sank $130 million into color TV before getting a penny out. Now RCA manufactures most color-television tubes, licenses the rest. With an estimated 3,000,000 color sets (which start at about $380) now in use in the U.S., and with the new NBC schedule as a come-on, the number is expected to jump...