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...society more aware of minority rights than ever, that demand is hard to brush aside. Many Hispanic spokesmen speak of "linguistic liberation" and argue that failure to provide bilingual education amounts to "cultural colonization" by the majority angles. Others say that failure to provide bilingual instruction guarantees that most Hispanic children will fall hopelessly behind in classwork...
...actors who are presenting eight of his one-act plays, including The Zoo Story and The American Dream, on a 35-week tour of U.S. and Canadian universities. For parts of the tour Albee plans to be on hand. But actors, beware. The director has a ready brush-off. "When there is a question," he jokes, "I say I'll take it up with the writer...
...they have surely done is to give a fierce rivalry a new lease on life in California. Since the Giants are young and fast, they are likely to be going at the Dodgers full tilt for years. However the wrenching, grueling pennant drive turns out, there are plenty of brush-'em-back pitches, spikes-high slides into second, empty-the-dugout confrontations and plain, hard baseball ahead...
...because the wholesale supplier was controlled by gangsters. But New York, as always, is a state of mind; it is what you think it is. Not long ago a painter set up an easel on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk and began to work on a picture, sighting along his brush from time to time, looking at the fuming steel flow of jammed traffic that inched downtown. When spectators walked up for a look at his canvas, they found that he was placidly painting a quiet meadow with a stream running through it. The man admirably embodied certain crucial New York...
...nzer was partly to blame for this calamitous brush with democracy. He had wanted to put off civilian elections until 1980, but came under heavy U.S. pressure to move the date forward. The way things now stand, a 1980 election might have been the better idea after...