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First, the corporations will be trying to institute these changes amid a great deal of legal and popular resistance (unless it becomes an empty and token gesture). A white employee could go to court over the abridgement of his "right" to segregated facilities. Given the history of government actions, he'd be almost sure to win. How could a corporation give non-whites the right to strike in any effective form when it would be illegal for them to gather at once or hold a picket or demonstration? And even if corporations respected a strike, the government could deport...
League rules require two U.S. citizens on each eleven-man starting team, a figure that will rise to five by 1984. But the Americans are not being signed on as token gestures to geography; they have learned to play the game. The Dallas Tornado and the Colorado Caribous have five American starters. Says Dallas Coach Al Miller, one of two U.S. head coaches in the N.A.S.L.: "I have faith in the Americans. I think you can win with them. We have Americans sitting on the bench who could play on most clubs...
...production's success is especially remarkable given the substantially flawed material. The two acts are only loosely connected by the curse on the Murgatroyd family: a love triangle that dominates the first act almost completely disappears in the second, despite a token reappearance by two of the characters. Except for a delicious song spoofing a pair of civil servants, the opera lacks much of the celebrated Gilbert and Sullivan social satire. Worst of all, the witch's curse, which has plagued the noble Murgatroyds for more than three centuries and the audience for nearly three hours, is dispelled abruptly, leaving...
...title implies, there are no absolute heroes in this movie; each character has major faults (Butler his harshness, Benji his self-righteousness). By the same token, however, there are no villains. Nelson's attempt to censure "the system" seems unjustifiable in his context, as the individuals who make up that system in the film, ranging from teacher to dealer, are, on the whole, very humane...
...sociobiology should not be taken too seriously--not because it might tell us what we do not want to know, but because its methods are questionable at best. No sociologist would try to apply his social theories to a rabbit warren or a nest of squirrels; by the same token, someone who has spent his life studying insects or baboons should not try to explain human phenomena--which is qualitatively different--by causal theories based on the observed motivations of non-human creatures. This is a question of academic imperialism...