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...there is ever a reason to use the term "utter domination...
FRANCIS L. LAWRENCE Rutgers president is latest public figure to utter a racial slur...
...Hunters & Gatherers (Overlook; 215 pages). Nicholson's hero, a feckless would-be writer named Steve Geddes, has unwisely taken a publisher's advance to produce a book on collectors. But the collector collector finds that his subjects, though daft, are stunningly boring. An obsessed gatherer of sounds has recorded utter silence in Namibia, the Sahara and the Australian outback. One human rodent, who promises to show Geddes the world's largest beer-can collection, leads him to a completely empty room. Curses, he says, my hostile wife and son have stolen every can and taken them to the dump...
...begin with, the leadership of the club has proven to be nothing less than bigoted and intolerant in its beliefs and behavior. It has alienated large sectors of the student body by endorsing views most decent people would be ashamed to utter--views which hold that Blacks are inferior to whites, that all women are genetically predisposed to be led by men and that homosexuals are somehow not full human beings...
...This utter fluency in the art may account for Del Monaco's range. As a young director in small German cities like Ulm and Dortmund, he was radical; he set a Butterfly in Saigon (long before Miss Saigon) and a Forza del Destino in Spain during the Civil War. But he is best known for productions that are traditional in concept, modern in their psychological astuteness and, occasionally, rude in their action. At the climax of the love duet in the Met's Butterfly, Pinkerton begins stripping his bride, who throws back her head in ecstasy. On opening night...