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...critics, including a number of visiting committee members, accept economics as one aspect of planning but they claim that the current program gives short shrift to social, political and physical factors in the planning process. Faculty members who share Kain's viewpoint, many of whom entered the department within the last few years, note that the remaining core courses--Planning Process: Political and Institutional Analysis, Planning Law and Administration and Urban Growth and Spatial Structure--provide students with the necessary foundation in other relevant disciplines, including physical planning. H. James Brown Jr., professor of City Planning, sums up the opinion...
Landscape as Cop-Out. These paintings, central to the so-called West Coast look, were the figurative works of a man who had once been an abstract painter and would become one again; purist criticism gave them short shrift. Landscape was regarded as the abstractionist's copout. Diebenkorn's work was described as abstract expressionism (the New York style par excellence) diluted for West Coast palates. If not unserious, at least it was not major. "It was always a putdown for me in the '50s," recalls Diebenkorn, 55, a big, reticent man with a no-nonsense bearing...
Perhaps Wilson's core committee seemed seemed to give the Humanities short shrift in the original report, the Faculty Council has seemingly overcompensated. It has devoted two of the new areas to "Arts and Letters" and "Foreign Languages and Cultures." There is nothing wrong with such a catch-all area as "Arts and Letters" except for the fact that it moves far away from the distinct headings of the task force's report. But the addition of "Foreign Languages and Cultures" in place of "Non-Western Civilization" effectively eliminates Rosovsky's hopes for everyone learning about Third World or Socialist...
...underline her point about how women's work is consistently given short shrift, Howe includes a few choice listings from the Labor Department's Dictionary of Occupational Titles. It ranks some 30,000 jobs according to their level of complexity. "Nurse, midwife" is classified as less skilled than hotel clerk; "homemaker," cross-referenced with "general maid," ranks slightly lower than dog-pound attendant...
...mediator has only resulted in the delay of contract negotiations that could, if prolonged, persuade the union to give in on the moral issue as the only means of achieving a quick settlement of the bread-and-butter questions of pay and benefits. Such a development would give short shrift to an important union grievance, and only serve to exacerbate an already difficult situation. While the temptation to avoid the reorganization question might be great, the University should give more credence to all the union's demands, and thus achieve a quick and far-reaching accommodation that will avoid even...