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Among its best efforts to date was a piece by Charlotte Curtis of the New York Times on the resignation of former Harper's editor Willie Morris last spring. She argued that the real reason Morris had to quit was his erratic stewardship of the magazine, and not the financial interference he cited in his resignation statement. Though [MORE] sometimes misses the mark, its current issue contains a well-researched if slightly overstated article by the Institutional Investor's Chris Welles, condemning the New York Times for putting out "a business and financial section of astonishing mediocrity," which...
...doesn't exist, he may have to be invented-in a hurry. On Dec. 31, Secretary-General U Thant, 62, suffering from a bleeding ulcer and general exhaustion, will end his two-term, ten-year stewardship. That leaves the 130 delegations little more than a month to find someone acceptable to all of the contentious Big Five and also to a majority of the Third World. According to Finnish Delegate Max Jakobson, the ideal candidate for the $65,000-a-year post would have to be "a person who is of no religion and of no race, a person...
Under Rudel's stewardship, the company has become one of the most inventive opera troupes in the world. Rudel has presented 38 operas by living composers (15 of them American-born). It does not bother him that few of these new works are likely to be permanent additions to the repertory. "Of 20,000 operas written throughout history," he notes, "1 defy anyone to name 50 masterpieces." He has also dug brilliantly into the past to retrieve and remount such almost forgotten musical delights as Handel's Julius Caesar and Donizetti's Roberto Devereux...
...making such nominations, the President carries out a stewardship entrusted to him by the Constitution. Implicit in that stewardship are certain widely accepted criteria of eligibility for the office of Supreme Court Justice. These include, we believe, a rich experience and distinguished performance in the realm of law, and qualities of mind and spirit promising a wise and fair search for the legal merits of cases undistorted by partisan, personal, or regional bias...
...voice them in appropriate ways. We hope that the President can be convinced to reconsider his approach to these appointments; that the ABA Committee will not hesitate to disapprove as many of the names proposed as its investigation warrants; and that the Senate--also entrusted with a constitutional stewardship--will hold the President to the appropriate standards in considering confirmation. Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Gary Bellow Harold J. Berman Abram Chayes Morris L. Cohen Vern Countryman Jerome P. Facher Richard H. Field William B. Gould Charles M. Haar Livingston Hall David R. Herwitz Phillip B. Heymann Morton J. Horwitz Benjamin...