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...offensively anti-Semitic. Hamlin might have been more daring. He might have created, for example, a Merchant of Venice as envisioned by Leslie Fiedler, in whose view Shylock represents early Puritanism and the morality of accountability, and the rest of the Venetians are simply time-serving hedonists seeking the shortest route to pleasure no matter how unjust. Or Hamlin might have aimed for "historical accuracy" and had Shylock played, as George C. Scott played him a few years ago, as a contemptible buffoon. He chose for the middle way, and provided a viable, plausible interpretation that does not strain anything...
...march of 350,000 people, but it is really ideas that are marching," Morocco's King Hassan II told TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager last week in his ocher palace in Marrakech. One of the ideas on the march might well be the old notion that the shortest route to enhanced power is through a neighboring country's land. In his determination to annex the phosphate-rich Spanish colony, King Hassan has ignored an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice that denied Morocco's claim of outright sovereignty over the Sahara. Spain, after promising to hold...
...settlement made many teachers wonder if the five-day strike was worthwhile. It preserves the official class size at 32 in elementary school, 33 in junior high and 34 in senior high, but it reduces the class day-at six hours and 20 minutes already one of the shortest in any large city-by two 45-minute periods a week. In return for the abbreviated schedule, teachers give up two preparation periods. The board agreed to use the money it "saved" during the strike (by not paying teachers' salaries and by fining them two days' pay for each...
...keep class size from soaring, the board demanded that the remaining teachers spend more time in the classroom. New York's teachers are among the best paid in the nation. They also work one of the shortest days-six hours and 20 minutes-of teachers in any large city (see chart page 18). The board wanted them to work an extra half-hour; it also wanted to cut some teachers' sick days from ten to five a year and reduce the number of their preparation periods. Most elementary teachers have two 45-minute prep periods a week; high...
...Hathaway resigned. In a statement issued by his office, he declared that "with the uncertainty about the time required for a recovery it is in the best interests of the nation that I step aside." Hathaway thus becomes the first Ford Cabinet appointee to step down-and also the shortest-tenured Interior Secretary since Thomas McKennan, who quit his office after eleven days in 1850, citing a "peculiar nervous temperament which too readily responded to excitement and depression...