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Last year, when black male admits dropped over 15 per cent, Harvard woke up and drew up what has turned out to be a partially successful recruitment campaign. How else would a serious artist react when he sees the quality of his works come under challenge...
...practice, the commitment has meant that governments, using the tools of Keynesian economics, react to anything but the briefest and shallowest downturn by increasing spending and pumping up the money supply in order to get the economy moving again. The strategy has in its way worked brilliantly: though governments have by no means always achieved full employment, the industrial world has consistently kept jobless rates to levels that would have been considered impossibly low before World War II. But the commitment also means that the industrial world has deliberately thrown away what used to be its chief weapon against inflation...
...Martin react so angrily? For one thing, he is openly suspicious of the Times. "The editorial page of the New York Times" he said earlier, "as is its inalienable right, has long been generally regarded as having a deep emotional involvement in the success of North Viet Nam's attempt to take over South Viet Nam by force of arms." Martin is also fiercely and understandably committed to preserving a non-Communist South Viet Nam. "I do think it is very important," he told Scott last week, "that in the future, America be able to look back...
...most firmly entrenched American plays, loved by the public and critics alike. Last Tango in Paris still hasn't found its niche, it's still a cult film or a sex film or whatever depending on your point of view. People still don't know how to react. But maybe in a year or so--if it keeps being shown without fanfare--Last Tango in Paris will be acknowledged as the great movie it is, not dismissed as the Media Event of some year in the past...
When I say "Providence College," the first thing that pops into the average sports fan's mind is usually basketball. Most fans react to any mention of the "Friars" in a similar context, with mention of such P.C. greats as Marvin Barnes, Kevin Stacom or the immortal Ernie...