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...number of fierce advocates surround Ronald Reagan these days, all determined to carry out last November's election mandate. Each seems, however, to interpret the mandate as his very own, as an individual summons to overhaul his special part of the System. No one is more zealous than James Watt, 43, the lanky, brusque Secretary of the Interior. His soft voice and thick glasses make him seem a little like a benign mortician, but that could be misleading. For Jim Watt has all the self-righteous conviction of the born-again Christian that he is, and his goal...
...proposal's greatest strength as it leaves room for more concrete ideas. The Foundation proposal accepts the future responsibility to give expression to Black political goals. With its resources and its funding "relations with the several professional schools of the University, the international alumni network and the communities that surround the university in metropolitan Boston could be utilized in the search for solutions to some of the vexing problems of our age," especially, one hopes, the vexing problem of admissions and hiring of Black students and faculty on this campus. We need to change that conditional "could" to a definite...
Ronald Reagan was to assume that awesome responsibility at noon Tuesday, in the midst of the most lavish festivities ever to surround a presidential Inauguration. They officially got under way Saturday night with a fireworks show at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by this week's succession of parties and balls. But that was only the televised surface. Reagan's own final preparations for his new post were both more personal and more businesslike: an emotional farewell to California, where he had risen from obscurity to show-biz celebrity and political power, and the final drafting in Washington...
...sense of amusement; it is a carefully sustained, aggressive and rather spiky mask that renders her un available to those who would take her casually, as mere spectacle. In getting to this pitch of achievement, she, like Georgia O'Keeffe, has also redrawn the assumptions that surround the role of women in art. In that respect she belongs to the culture as a whole, not just to the art world and its concerns. "I think you have to look into yourself and do what you think is your fulfillment," she says. "If women have not taken their rightful places...
...difference between Uspensky and other academicians goes far below the surface. The small, soft-spoken, gray-bearded man is not like other lexicographers. Trained in military academies and army barracks, Uspensky is a writer, and many of the 30,000 notecards that surround him list words he first heard as a prisoner in a Soviet forced-labor camp. Uspensky's story is the story of the making of a dissident...