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...other gnawing issues of concern in higher education, Hufstedler, heretofore vaguer in conversations with the press, chooses words and plans that belie the fact that, prior to December, she had little if any exposure to such issues. For the next decade, the "biggest single problem facing post-secondary education is demographics," she says, noting that the age cohort that would ordinarily be headed to college "has diminished drastically;" some estimate it will decline nationally by 20 per cent in the next decade. Small liberal arts colleges will only survive if they redefine their missions or join in consortia with others...
...organizers of this Royal Academy show, a team of scholars working under Art Historian Alan Bowness, have treated the period in an even vaguer way than Fry. There were retrograde as well as advanced currents in 1880s art, and many artists recoiled from impressionism, or were indifferent to it, instead of trying like Gauguin or Van Gogh to push beyond it. They are represented too, to the confusion of the term: if post-impressionism means not only Van Gogh's Arlesian canvases, in all their lambent color and twisting, linear energies, but also the eclectic products of a tonal impressionist...
Though the treaty is vaguer than the friendship pacts that the Soviets have signed in the past two months with Viet Nam and Ethiopia, it further confirms the fact that the softspoken, sometime journalist who heads Afghanistan's leftist Khalq (People's) Party "considers Moscow his friend, benefactor and protector," as a senior State Department official puts it. Indeed, the pro-Soviet tilt of the new rulers in Kabul, the Afghan capital, is already stirring some recriminations in Washington. U.S. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, an ardent hawk on the subject of Soviet expansionism, growled to a U.S. diplomat...
...issues other than inflation, the leaders dealt mainly in even vaguer generalities, especially in the final 1,700-word declaration. Though energy was discussed intensely for an hour, the final document included only one sentence on the subject. "We did not want the one countries to think we were ganging up on them," explained one U.S. official. Similarly, in referring to trade problems between the developed and underdeveloped worlds, the leaders expressed themselves only in platitudes. They did, however, reaffirm their determination to complete by the close of 1977 the multilateral trade negotiations, now under way in Geneva, that...
...aristocracy is loosely defined, its powers are even vaguer. It orders people about infrequently and with care, citing the common good. The sanctions that it can mobilize are few. The great Berawan leaders of the past were obviously imposing characters who got their way by the supernatural and physical fear that they could motivate, rather than by appeal to any right of office. Nowadays people are less easily intimidated and the noble must rely on the social pressure of the community, and therefore he must be very plainly right. If not, his wishes are ignored. At meetings his opinions carry...