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...Will it succeed? "There isn't an instant cure," warns Thompson. At the very least, the Army has recognized a very basic fact ? that when male drill sergeants are given absolute power over young female recruits, top brass must take care...
...department's stone-pillared training academy, guidance on use of force comes from a cadre of eight instructors rather than the plethora of training officers used in the past. After the Rodney King incident, the brass discovered that cops on the street could not even agree on whether the officers involved in the beating were following official procedure. "The idea," says Charles Binse, a department commander, "is to teach from the same book...
...pressure to accord women full military equality, by allowing them to serve even in the riskiest specialties, has become irresistible. Irresistible, that is, when that pressure is applied to the Pentagon by wily Lillian DeHaven, a U.S. Senator whose scheming soul Anne Bancroft inhabits with rip-snorting relish. The brass, of course, expect O'Neil to fail and prove their patronizing assumptions about gals in combat. There even comes a moment when the Senator, faced with base closings in her state, is willing to trade principles for political survival...
...school finally agreed to go co-ed when the Supreme Court ruled last year that any institution accepting federal tax dollars must consider female applicants. To prevent a repeat of the Citadel fiasco, in which several female cadets said they were abused by their male colleagues, VMI's top brass promised swift punishment for any male who gets out of line...
Even less can be said in favor of the brass. Muffled and shy in the Brahms, the entire horn section produced less power than any single counterpart of the legendary Chicago Symphony Orchestra of the 1970s. This absence of inspiration was particularly disappointing in the finale, but by this time Tate had ceased trying to goad the BSO to action. Whether from frustration or disinterest, his take on the Brahms offered few surprises in phrasing and even fewer variations in dynamics and tempi. Only the mellifluous soli of the winds merited much remembrance...