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...difficult for many white New Yorkers who sympathize with the Negroes' desire for equality to see any rational purpose in the construction-site demonstrations. They appeared to be as much outlets for general frustration and anger as thought-out efforts to get construction-industry jobs for Negroes. There is already a shortage of jobs for the unskilled in New York, in construction as in other fields. And the very real discrimination against Negroes in the skilled building trades is less a matter of racism than of nepotism. It is the unions that maintain the discrimination, not the contractors...
...Characters in Search of an Author is quite possibly the best thought-out and most excitingly executed revival of the Pirandello classic ever to be seen in the U.S. Under William Ball's exceptional direction, a topnotch cast responds seis-mographically to the dramatic shifts between illusion and reality...
...World Bank, and the economics Edward S. Mason, they also held in common no special knowledge of there subject, but that may have been accidental.) The President's purpose in choosing this blue-chip bunch was very shrewd. He was not nearly so interested in gaining unofficially thought-out views of economic and military programs as he was in providing himself with a club with which to clip Otto Passman, chairman of the Foreign Aid Appropriations subcommittee, behind the ear. The Committee, which would surely recommend a few minor cuts in expenditure and give the rest of foreign...
...good as it should be. One judges Mr. Kazin by his own high standards: his first, best book On Native Grounds, a study of American literature from then to now, is one of the finest brief surveys of the field, comprehensive yet insightful, carefully thought-out but delightfully without a theory to hawk, Kazin has traveled far on the reputation this book gained for him; unhappily, he has not reached its level in any of his later books, and Contempories marks no departure from this disappointing history. The best of its contents have all the charm and value one hopes...
...this case, the Administration may have considerable difficulty enforcing its carefully thought-out views, for LeMay commands much support. But it must in the future control the behavior of officers such as LeMay, who wish to impose unenlightened personal preferences on military policy, or U.S. defense planning will become a chaos...