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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Good Doctor itself, a dramatization of several short stories by Anton Chekhov, is no great shakes. These tales are early Chekhov, written under the name Antosha Chekhonte for sale to various humor magazines. They are merely anecdotes, where character is subordinate to the twist ending (which Chekhov was to chop off in his later, masterful works), deriving their charm from the compassionate tone, the airy, economical descriptions, and the flashes of pain in between chuckles. Neil Simon shatters Chekhov's mood, replacing it only with his shrill Broadway yocks, heavy-handedness, and sentimentality; moreover, the inherent Semitism of his phrasing...
...addition, Gourman evaluated faculty teaching ability, library administration, and trustee involvement with the school through confidential questionnaires and independent evaluators, as well as looking at graduate and vocational positions that students from the various colleges received after being graduated...
...morning. The Joint Judiciary Committee had not vigorously publicized its public session on Bill H4632. Reporters and cameras and microphones and pages and staff aides were around, but relatively few citizens entered the hallowed halls of state government. Towards noon, when the Massachussetts governor and the attorney general, and various legislators had testified and the T.V. lights had begun to dim with the 6 o'clock news footage already shot, the citizenry emerged. It was a strange collection--a junior high school class observing the workings of government, a few members of citizen action groups performing their lobbying duties...
These were the central provisions discussed by the various speakers at the hearing before the Joint Judiciary Committee on Thursday. "The committee should consider carefully. Sisitsky said in his testimony, "the scope of the investigation, the power of subpoena, the question of immunity, and the membership of the proposed commission." And despite the confusion created by the committee's apparent intolerance of the public, they did just that...
...question of immunity encountered opposition even among committee members. Some members said that transactual immunity is perhaps too broad a power with which to equip the commission. The attorney general and various committee members recommended a policy of "use immunity"--immunity with regard to specifics--as a substitute for the across-the-board "transactual immunity." Bellotti encouraged the committee to specifically delinate within the bill the circumstances under which the power of immunity would be used. Without such an amendment, he said, "the special commission poses a direct threat to effective prosecutorial efforts...