Word: select
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eighteen months ago the F.W.A. set out to select those members with appropriate work experience to be considered for directorships. The purpose of the breakfast was to acquaint the corporate chiefs with some of them. Says Marilyn Brown, 41, also a candidate and president of her own consulting firm: "Our approach is to make ourselves available." The "available" group also included Lynn Salvage, 32, president of the First Women's Bank of New York; Julia M. Walsh, 55, chairman of Julia Walsh & Sons, a Washington brokerage firm; Suzanne Jane, 35, a partner at Century Capital Associates, an investment advisory...
...employment projects are developed neighborhood by neighborhood, and if a child does not receive a job assignment in his neighborhood, his parents are likely to keep him from working at all. When the Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs organizes its free programs for the summer, it has to select its performers, concert managers, D.J.'s and even movie bus drivers on the basis of race or ethnic affiliation or resemblance: if it doesn't, it may expose its employees to stonings and attempted shootings. Blacks are even more vulnerable than whites in this regard because the black neighborhoods...
Your article entitled 'Sleazy Letters' oversimplifies the issues of affirmative action. You imply that the only way Third World people can enter into the higher education institutions is by these "quota systems" which, in turn, select only the people least qualified. You then imply that the only reason that these "quota systems" were established came about as a result of the violence of other Third World people who did this because they did not have anything better to do with their time. By this you imply that there are no qualified Third World students that would enter into Graduate programs...
...actors that bring this show back from the dead. It's too bad that the members of the Grant-in-Aid board (many of whom orchestrated this show) can't seem to divorce themselves from the shows they select. What they need is some artistic distance. And what Andy Borowitz really needs is a good editor. In No Net, he's let loose and with the cost of this production he should have been leashed. As Bucks says when he describes the audience's reaction to his circus, I haven't seen such a disappointed crowd since the Chicago Fire...
...select group of freshman writers deserve the chance to exercise and develop their own literary talents. But the issue is not simply one of academic freedom. I question the validity of distinctions between the skills taught in craft of fiction the modes of expression are more open, if often less direct. Still, clarity is respected, compression admired, diction honored. If the implication of Richard Marius' decision is that style can't be adequately learned in the practice of fiction writing. I am sure even Strunk and White would disagree with...