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...drafted the letter, said the faculty members who signed it advocated a plan which would allow the University to divest gradually. Explaining that the faculty members had the University's interests in mind as well as the oppressed Blacks in South Africa, he said, "This isn't just a tantrum...
...most public poet. Approaching his autumnal years, the man once feared as a weevil in the nation's moral fiber is in a disarming state of equilibrium. Cultural norms have adjusted in Ginsberg's favor since 1956, when he disturbed the peace with Howl. It was a poetic tantrum thrown at the Eisenhower years, at an academic system that rejected his rude unconventionality, at an encompassing conspiracy he imagined had driven his mother and his soul mates crazy. "Moloch! Moloch!" he cried. "Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses...
...press also doubted that Mobil's boycott would work. Said Sheldon Zalaznick, managing editor of Forbes: "This is corporate governance by tantrum. They will not get what they want, which is a better-behaved Wall Street Journal." Zalaznick thinks Mobil will eventually realize that and reopen the door. When it does, Schmertz will doubtless have plenty to say. -By Janice Castro. Reported by Barry Kalb/New York
...growing chorus of international protests and inquiries, the Soviets refused to give any details on Sakharov's health and whereabouts. Said a top Washington diplomat: "They are not capable of taking any positive steps, so they are turning inward and isolating themselves. It is leadership by tantrum...
Moreover, continue the Administration and its supporters, there is more than a little stagecraft in the Soviet temper tantrum. Moscow is deliberately exaggerating the troubles afflicting East-West relations. Many West Europeans are nervous about Reagan's hard line, and the Soviets are trying to exploit those anxieties so that Bonn, London and Paris will distance themselves politically from Washington...