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First. I believe that the setting of meaningful targets is often impossible. In the smaller schools, a very limited number of appointments may be made each year, and it is not possible to predict in advance how many persons in a very small, highly select pool will turn out to be women or minority persons. In larger faculties, more appointments are made, but the appointment process consists of a host of individual searches by many individual committees covering a shifting number of highly varied fields of knowledge. Once again, no one can predict what proportions of women or minority persons...
Kilson implies that those Blacks who gained teaching and administrative positions did so because there was no "competition from white scholars." Every department at the University is open only to a select group. Would he have himself head of Far Eastern Studies? Kilson is denying that those teaching in the department are qualified to teach, at the same time implying that Harvard lowered its standards for the creation of the department. Many of the courses listed in the catalogue are not given during the year precisely because qualified instructors cannot be found. I suggest that Kilson do some actual research...
...impression of Muskie's popularity had never really been tested in voting booths nationwide. Muskie had looked cool and impressive as Hubert Humphrey's running mate in 1968, and he exuded much more of a presidential aura than did his G.O.P. counterpart, Spiro Agnew. Yet few voters select a President primarily by looking at the vice presidential candidates, and Muskie's appeal was not really an issue in that election. Muskie was now recognized by most Democratic voters all right, but how did they really feel about him? No one could be sure...
...Muskie's overconfident staff had also erred badly in ignoring grass-roots organizational work. In a primary, voters have to be coaxed to go to the polls and persuaded to select a particular name out of a crowded field. In New Hampshire, the Muskie camp had to send out-of-state organizers in at the last minute to get out a favorable vote...
...Earth, he has just produced a handsome coffee-table book entitled A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land (Saturday Review Press; $27.50). It juxtaposes 67 American landscapes, painted from the 16th century to the present, with a description of what moved each artist to select the scene. The result is astonishingly successful; no careful reader should see art-or nature-in the same way again...