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...sitting there and all of a sudden I started screaming for Harvard," he recalled. "Then this professor sitting two rows behind me comes crashing down with his umbrella...
...TIME, Pollster Louis Harris interpreted the 1970 election this way: "Efforts to put together a new coalition of diverse elements under an umbrella of common aversion to the young, the blacks and the poor just won't jell. The thesis that the U.S. is 'unblack' (88% are white), 'unyoung' (83% of the vote is over 30) and 'unpoor' (88% are not in poverty) turns out to be a vast half truth at best. After the 1970 election, we must obviously remember that by that kind of measurement we are also unsmalltown (71% live in metropolitan areas); unsouthern white...
...singing lady dentist who plants a radio transmitter in his incisor and calls him up when she hears him eating a forbidden bagel ("Lock Lips-Monkey-shines in the Bridgework"). Very rarely does he have any real satiric intentions. In one piece, though, "Let a Snarl Be Your Umbrella," there is a hint of very good-natured satire. Perelman finds himself ignored, insulted, and humiliated by a series of British clerks, in what appears to be a conspiracy to make the customer suffer. He discovers by accident that it is all the work of a company called "Creative Humiliation Associates...
...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the single umbrella agency empowered to deal with discrimination in hiring, is short on power as well as personnel. It is forced to play the passive role of "a poor, enfeebled thing." The EEOC has made little use of its "initiatory capabilities," opting instead for processing individual complaints when they are received. The Civil Rights Commission recommended broadening the EEOC's policing role, allowing EEOC rulings to supplant Justice Department lawsuits in complaints about discrimination. The report also said that the Department of Housing and Urban Development has hardly begun to use the enforcement authority...
...memory in the preservative desert air, flit through empty, curlicued facades or congregate amid their elaborate furniture, radiating a wistful chic; as image maker, Curtis is more elegant than challenging. His objects do not confront one another in shock, like Lautréamont's famous sewing machine and umbrella on a dissecting table-they nod, as it were, with mild and civil assent, a little surprised to find each other surviving in Arizona. Survival, in fact, is the keynote of such art. In the end, even the nostalgia of Philip Curtis' vision serves its purpose, which...