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Like a sudden swarm of 200-year locusts, commemorative kitsch is appearing everywhere: plates, mugs and glasses decaled with an eagle or the likeness of George Washington or John Adams or the flag or Archibald Willard's familiar Revolutionary fife-and-drum trio.* Businessmen are offering patriotic yo-yos, ties, music boxes, telephones, costumes, clocks, T shirts and egg timers. Even foreigners are getting in on the act. Many inexpensive Bicentennial items-though the ads, of course, never say so-are made in Taiwan or Japan. British Airways advertises: "You gave us the business 200 years ago, America. Here...
...when those good plantation folks turn from corn husking to "goin' around" (square dancing), it is hard to believe that anything so bouncy could have been rehearsed, let alone laid out in advance. The performance benefits enormously from the authority of Betty Allen's Monisha and Willard White's Ned, not to mention Schuller's buoyant conducting. But it is Carmen Balthrop as Treemonisha who is easily the hit of the evening. Winner of the 1975 Metropolitan Opera auditions, she still moves too cautiously on stage, but her lyric soprano voice has an appealing woodwind glow...
...sentencing is handled by a judge who is not bound by a deal, however, it is a wholly irrational process that sometimes results in cellmates serving wildly different terms for the same offense. Sentencing is too often "a projection of the value system of the judge," says Columbia's Willard Gaylin. The resulting excessive disparities, he believes, corrode "the basic structural prop of equity that supports our sense of justice." Virtually every expert in the field now believes that the structure and rationale of sentences need extensive overhauling. Certainty is the key word...
...victim to pieces with a machete knife, showed that all nine had been routinely beaten by their parents. Other youths who commit and later talk about the most heinous crimes with peculiar indifference "don't seem to realize they are putting a knife into another human being," says Willard Gaylin, professor of psychiatry and law at Columbia University. Gaylin believes this insensibility stems from a lack of identity with anyone else or with the community. "These kids have been so brutalized that there is no guilt for one to work with," said one New York juvenile investigator...
...necessarily in feminist directions. Notable American Women is to some extent a catalogue of women's organizations and clubs, and gives a new perspective on activities that today might seem unsavory. The Women's Christian Temperance Union, for example, was not simply the haven of moralistic teetotalers, Frances Willard, its leader, and a pre-eminent feminist, deliberately feed she organization as a vehicle to draw women (especially in the south) into public activity under the umbrella of socially acceptable reform causes such as penal reform, labor legislation, the peace movement. Home economics at its inception was the vision of Ellen...