Word: reviewers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sounds to me," commented a professor, "like one review committee just passed on its problems to another...
...methodological approach toward understanding black history, literature, music and all aesthetics was the basis for rejecting white educational values, theories and standards." Manning Marable, editor of the Socialist Review and Professor at U. San Francisco, writing about Black Studies, concludes that white aesthetic and political hegemony has been successfully challenged in the face of a white counterassault. The failure Dean Henry Rosovsky refers to is the failure of Harvard to provide any environment for the growth ot this new independent approach...
...trial of the Maid of Orleans. In 1958 Scholar Isobel-Ann Butterfield and her physician husband John theorized that an advanced infection of bovine tuberculosis might have led to the phenomenon of Joan's hearing voices. Critic Albert Guérard was right when, in a review of one of the thousands of books about her, he said: "The last word on Joan of Arc will never be uttered...
Only a new ruling by the Supreme Court can clear up the muddle left by Gannett. This fall the court will have just such an opportunity when it decides whether to review a decision by the Virginia Supreme Court that allowed judges to bar the press from trials. Whatever the outcome in that case or in others that are sure to come up to the high court, the Justices have created the uncertainty themselves. Something is clearly amiss when, as Michigan Law School Professor Yale Kamisar puts it, "Justices have to explain their decisions at the next annual A.B.A. meeting...
Chicago police, sometimes to their chagrin, also find themselves under scrutiny. Following the revelation that the cops were spying on political activists, the commission persuaded the late Mayor Richard Daley to establish a citizens police review committee made up of appointees whom they recommended. Even government corruption is a target of the more aggressive commissions, like those in Chicago, Kansas City, and New Orleans. Says Frank Maudlin, an ex-highway patrolman who heads the Kansas City commission: "Organized crime runs hand in hand with the corruption of officials...