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...Democrats' 1982 gerrymandering of senate districts proved so crude that the courts ruled it unconstitutional. Over the past year 16 Providence city employees and vendors were indicted by grand juries on charges ranging from extortion to payroll padding. To cap the political profession's embarrassment, Providence Mayor Vincent ("Buddy") Cianci Jr. was forced to resign last April after pleading no contest to charges of assault against a man who he said was having an affair with his wife...
...POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE Directed by Stuart Rosenberg Screenplay by Vincent Patrick...
Their adventures, with Paulie always fouling up and Charlie always covering up, are intricately and surprisingly plotted by Screenwriter Vincent Patrick, adapting his own novel. He has a fine, unforced understanding of how clan loyalties work, a bemused acceptance of corruption as a natural part of New York City's municipal style, and a sharp sense of how Irish and Italian ethics and ethnics mesh to mutual advantage and grind to mutual exasperation. In Rourke, with his alert inwardness, and Roberts, with his burbling extraversion (as opposed to his work in Star 80 as it is possible...
...recent study we sought to measure students' "capacity to analyze problems by collecting relevant data and mastering pertinent arguments." With Professor of Psychology David McClelland's assistance, we had constructed the "analysis of argument" test. It consisted of an excerpt from a sermon by the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale in which he criticized the permissive child-rearing practices advocated by Dr. Benjamin Spock, claiming that these practices were creating moral lassitude among the young, resulting in the most undisciplined age in history. After reading the article, students were asked to argue against his position. When this task was completed, they...
...return to the Norman Vincent Peale story. The analysis of the argument is an attempt to get at some fundamental dimension which I would like to call analytical thinking, one of the keystones of an even larger concept: that of learning how to learn. Having stated that I think we teach this somewhat better than most places, let me go on to develop the issue of how fundamental it is to our intellectual life and to suggest that Harvard must do an even better job at this...