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...same time, the press will have to re-establish some sort of balance with Government. As Paul Weaver, associate editor of The Public Interest, points out, in the American liberal tradition "the relationship between newsmen and source, between press and government, is one of structured interdependence and bartering within an atmosphere of amiable suspiciousness. Each side knows its role." The U.S. Government has generally been far readier to give access to the press than governments in Europe or elsewhere; at the same time the American press is far less ideological. Continues Weaver: "The press can make its contribution...
...these suspicions, the new black middle class seems less obsessed with whites than the old bourgeoisie used to be. Says Oscar Weaver Jr., a supermarket owner in Liberty, Fla.: "The black middle class does not regard the white as an enemy but rather as a challenge." In general, blacks can take whites or leave them, and often at quitting time at 5 o'clock, they choose to leave them. As a black personnel recruiter in New York City says, "The only thing that keeps my head intact is the chance to get with other people now and then...
None of these movies approach the tense excellence of what may be the all-time best-of-breed: Director Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971), in which Dennis Weaver plays a peaceable salesman hurrying to a meeting through rugged desert country and incurring the psychopathic rage of a truck driver by passing him on a hill. His desperate efforts to avoid murder by collision with a relentless foe, whose face neither he nor the audience ever glimpses, is an unforgettable exercise in the action-suspense category...
They could have crushed together into tiny black holes-some of them even smaller than a virus. These black holes would have relatively strong gravitational fields, but observers could approach within several hundred feet without being drawn into them. According to AEC Astrophysicists Lowell Wood, Thomas Weaver and John Nuckolls, if such bizarre little objects do indeed exist near the earth, their gravity might well be put to work...
...artists in the show are united by their affiliation with the Institute and their commitments to their own professional careers. There is no apparent connection between the style, subject matter, or medium of their work. Janet Abramowicz makes compositions out of wood and metal, Joanna Brandford is a weaver. Lois Charney is concerned with color theory in her abstract paintings, Juliet Kepes makes Japanese-like brush paintings and Marian Parry does tiny Steinbergesque drawings...