Word: subs
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Several primarily symbolic steps are important. The University should fight sub rosa bias against Radcliffe, whether it is failure to place books on reserve in Hilles or creation of only "Quad" sections when each River House gets its own section. Harvard should enforce its system for freshmen dining on weekends instead of looking the other way when freshmen assigned to the Quad eat at the River Houses. Otherwise, these students will lose an important chance to overcome stereotypes and decide for themselves what Currier, North and South are like...
...House committee has been less effective than the Senate's. True enough, it has learned a good deal about the sub rosa financing arrangements enjoyed by intelligence agencies: that the General Accounting Office, which is supposed to monitor federal spending, keeps its hands off the CIA; the CIA alumni in the Office of Management and Budget handle the purse strings of their alma mater...
...haphazard personal autocracy" into a steamlined power structure. Increasingly the real decisions were made by the Prime Minister alone or in consultation with one or two other key figures, and the Cabinet relegated to the role of a rubber stamp. Attlee, along with a small group in the Defense Sub-Committee of the Cabinet, made the crucial (for Labor party politics) decision to develop British nuclear weapons without consulting or informing the rest of his government. Sir Anthony Eden (a Conservative) worked out plans for Suez without informing his Cabinet of them, much less getting their approval. In both cases...
Director Gordy arranged his debut by talking the producer of Mahogany -one Berry Gordy-into firing Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) ten days after shooting began. Richardson, complained Producer-Critic-Sociologist Gordy, was "losing all the subtleties" of ghetto life and humor. The not-so-sub-tleties were supplied-at inflationary prices. Did Ross, doubling as her own clothes designer, require more yard goods and seamstresses to realize her visions? She got them. Did the film maker require an outdoor theater for a few atmospheric shots? He hired the 17th century theater at Spoleto for a week and transported the whole...
What all this means is that if the linebackers have to help out on the pass defense because Cronin is gone, then the forward line will have to hold its own against Fanelli and the running game. And with a sub-par Kurzweil, that could be tough...