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...discrimination, Hook demands: "Would it be reasonable to contend that women should have been compensated for past discrimination against their maternal forebears by being given an extra vote or two ... ?" Nor is he indulgent to political philosophers-"those of us who are concerned with current issues ... we need only refer to Santayana's apologias for Mussolini and Stalin, Heidegger's support of Hitler, Sartre's refusal to condemn the concentration-camp economy of the Soviet Union...
...trying to help people find jobs, readjust their careers and find ways of making more money." Therapist Margaret Nichols of Atlanta is willing to work out basic budget plans for patients. Says she: "I will do a very reality-oriented kind of assessment. If they need more, I refer them to an accountant...
WHEN EMPLOYERS make budgetary cuts, they generally refer to an old line: last hired, first fired. The recent decision of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees' subcommittee on management policy to fire the administrators of the Radcliffe Forum shows how inadequate that system...
Thus, again and again, the landscape tables refer to something other than landscape. Knife in the Rock, 1970, for example, suggests the pointed blade of a Japanese tanto (short sword) impressed in the stone, as though the granite were wax. But, in general, landscape is the sole image, and its core is the stone itself, with its obdurate beauty, dark crystalline structure and archaic associations with ritual and shelter. As a result, a piece like Double Red Mountain, 1969, functions both as a highly stylized image of Zen landscape and as a more Western object, tinged with surrealist fantasy...
...history. According to Genesis 23: 2-19, Abraham paid 400 shekels to buy a burial site in Hebron for his wife Sarah. In Roman times the shekel was not only a coin but a symbol of Jewish sovereignty. In modern times the World Zionist Congress, for example, liked to refer to its annual levy on members as a shekel...