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...appears that TIME has chosen to elect Albert Shanker as the villain in the New York City public-school dispute [Oct. 25]. The fact that Albert Shanker lives in Putnam County and earns an annual salary of $16,750 (which TIME stated) bears as much relevance to the cure of the city's ills as the fact that Rhody McCoy lives in Roosevelt, L.I. and earns an annual salary of $30,000 (which TIME neglected to state). If you must elect a villain in this crisis, I suggest that we widen the range of candidates to include Bernard Donovan...
...OBVIOUS that the villain of the story is They. Mrs. Ellmann does a good job of pinning down the general view of femininity; she even manages to grind her axe gently. But instead of explaining why the view exists and how it affects real women she trails off in feeble optimism. She argues that writing and opinions are moving toward a mode of indecision, a non-judging, antiabsolutist, amoral, particularized view of life in which no form the species can take is not somehow acceptable and in which the artist's aim is to become rather than to judge...
...villain generally is size. Most local governments are either too small to deal with the big problems, or too big to take care of the small. In New York and other major cities, the difficulty is one of reaching down. "The city is designed to shrink people," says Leonard Fein, associate director of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Affairs, "so one doesn't feel plugged in, connected, part of a family. So at least then, let's resurrect the neighborhood, the community within the city. That's what decentralization is all about...
Like most gothic romancers, Author Oates puts her really sinister touches of evil into her stage setting rather than her characters. The villain in the end is that old devil, bad environment. Trapped in an imitation-British boys' school among 13-year-old alcoholics-wizened little gnomes like himself-Richard joins his parents a little prematurely as one of the "doomed" and "damned...
...Chief Villain. If the frustrations of the convention bothered newsmen, however, the violence visited on their colleagues really raised their hackles. Whenever they were chasing protesters and demonstrators, the police seemed to single out reporters and TV men as special targets, blaming them for attracting the yippies and giving them publicity. On the first night of the convention, some 20 newsmen were beaten up and three hospitalized. "If the police ask a newsman and a photographer to move, they should move as well as anyone else," said Mayor Daley, who became the press's chief villain of the week...