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Long-term goals notwithstanding, the upcoming Hilles Library Show is receiving the caucus's immediate attention. The show, which will open January 10 and remain on view until January 29, is the first university-wide activity coordinated by the ASC. The exhibit is not limited to works done within the confines of VES courses; anyone wishing to submit work should contact Paul Douglas (8-2042), Jeanine Kelly (8-2043) or Andrea Kantrowitz (661-9784) as soon as possible. The final deadline for submissions will be January 5. Further publicity will appear in dining halls and public places around campus...
From a journalist's point of view, it may be just as well that the court chose to duck the Farber case, given the cold shoulder that the Justices have turned toward press claims of special privilege in recent decisions. "When journalists rely on the First Amendment in these cases, they'd better face the fact they're not going to get much help from the Supreme Court," says Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt. One reporter who agrees is Farber, who is finishing a book on the case. Says he: "I wasn't surprised. I became...
...that the only way to win labor's support would be for Congress to enact the President's proposal granting tax rebates to obedient union members and other groups if the inflation rate next year exceeds 7%. But Fraser doubts that Congress will pass such legislation in view of the chilly reception it has received from Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman. Many Government officials at work devising the "wage insurance program" are also discouraged by its grave problems, notably how to put a limit on payments. Says one key official: "If we're lucky, Congress will...
...trouble with the now pervasive clinical view of the holidays is that, along with offering undeserved comfort to unreconstructed Scrooges, it tends to confuse many perfectly healthy people about their own emotional condition. Even casual observation confirms that many weave through the holidays feeling vaguely like victims-acutely aware of the supposedly malignant pressures that the diagnosticians always talk about. No mystery here. With a consciousness razed by standard holiday pathology, even an intelligent adult may tend to construe the pressure as a symptom of something bad and imminent. In fact, that pressure is primarily only the moving power...
...fretful is the atmosphere achieved by the clinical view that some people are even turning to ever increasing preholiday workshops that offer to help them "cope" with seasonal stress. This trend in popular therapy reached a bizarre pinnacle this year with the scheduling, in New York, of an eleven-day "antiholiday" workshop starting three days before Christmas. It was conceived by a therapist who says she and her followers hope to "create new rituals and celebrations" while at the same time they cure themselves...