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Miller said he plans to give personal attention to the problem of tuition assistance for minority groups. The Summer Health Careers Program. fomerly administered by an ad hoc committee. will be another of his main concerns...
DUNLOP had originally negotiated a national settlement (the so-called "Model Cities agreement") to increase the number of black workers in the construction unions. The locals, however, "protected" union membership with a rigorous seven-year apprenticeship program. The apprenticeship program, blacks charged, discriminated against them and would certainly have delayed their entry into the unions. In Pittsburgh, these charges increased racial tensions and led to a workers' riot. In Boston, Dunlop introduced the concept of "trainee status" as a second route for blacks into the unions. The trainee program provided a form of special tutoring to prepare blacks...
...vindication of the joy of a liberating mystical communion with nature rather than as a debilitating confusion of introspection with self-pity, or a lamentation on the evanescence of all things cherishable. It was, hopefully, a deeper recognition of mutability and then transcendence over corruptibility. The excellent program notes' suggestion that "Bruckner exalts the same romanticism, through classical gestures, that Mahler dialectically challenges and puts to the test," is an illuminating insight harmed by misplaced emphasis, for Bruckner's romanticism, like that of all men, was sui generis, and in his particular case consisted primarily of unshakeable Roman Catholicism...
...complete conception. The Philharmonia contributed its finest playing in this performance. The slight touch of coarseness in the upper violins which occasionally intruded last year has been eliminated. My only complaint is that the solo oboe persists in playing half a dynamic too loud. On the basis of this program the Philharmonia's forthcoming concerts will be awaited with more than ordinary pleasure, and on the basis of this superb Stravinsky reading Requiem Canticles (to be performed April 12), this composer's magnificent new masterpiece, will be anticipated with unbounded enthusiasm...
...purchaser must, however, sign a separate card. "I will cooperate with you in your program and express my opinion of Collier's Encyclopedia. You may use my name as a Registered Owner," the card says. It places absolutely no obligation on Collier...