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Just as the stereotype of Jews in the 1920s as mentally deficient was wrong and eventually abandoned, so should the stereotype of Asian-Americans as one-dimensional, technical supermen be exposed for its inaccuracy and discarded. It is the duty of publications like Newsweek on Campus to take the first steps towards the dissolution of such stereotypes...
...legal genius. Both on tennis courts and in courts of law, his dress is often unusual: 1930s-style white flannels and sweater at play; bow ties and double-breasted suits at work. He relaxes by reading 19th century literary criticism and listening to pop singers from the 1920s. Long considered one of Washington's best trial Lawyers, Jacob Stein, 59, last week agreed to serve in one of the capital's current hot spots as the special prosecutor selected by a three-judge panel to investigate all charges raised against Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Ronald Reagan...
EXTRA CREDIT: Who has appeared in a major or minor league game in every decade since the 1920s...
...Modern Art's director of architecture and design, Arthur Drexler, refuses to mount a Memphis show at MOMA. Says he: "Announcing that it's all deeply philosophical gives the media a peg to hang it on. But it's only a mix of California funk, 1920s Kurt Schwitters [the German Dadaist], and a few things that have been lying around unclaimed." Still, Ben Lloyd, an editor at Metropolitan Home magazine, speaks for many in the design world when he states that "Memphis has made furniture much more politically interesting than before...
University officials don't know the combination of the lock and don't want to damage the safe, but would like to know what's been inside it since the 1920s or 1930s. Three weeks ago, university President Steven Muller offered $100 to any undergraduate who could open...