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...VOLUME of mash-notes couldn't hold sufficient praise for the wonders Coppola's worked with his actors. Marlon Brando, with a receded hairline, grey pencil moustache, jowls hanging off a twisted mouth, and a voice cracked from years of command, is Don Corleone. Brando plays the character totally from within, making him physically expressive and, as a result, extraordinarily complex. He walks as if his shoulder blades were pinned back behind him (which can't hide an old man's paunch in front). But the sensibility beneath the authority is surprisingly agile; the Don can suddenly break into mimicry...
...middle management: "There are too many chains of command in the city. The borough office is where orders should come from, not from downtown. You just can't take a man out of Harvard University, Princeton or Yale, and put him in sanitation--you have to come up through the ranks...
...Featherstone's work lies with the impetus it may provide toward a greater realization of the importance of teaching practice and toward a better balance between research and actual classwork which may help minimize self-deception and self-righteousness in the reform movement. Meanwhile, we have at our command the tools necessary to make large segments of schooling more humane, more fulfilling, and, in a basic sense, more educational. Featherstone writes: "In reform, as in anything else, there must be priorities, and the first priority is simply to see clearly." If parents and teachers see the prospects for change clearly...
...collected the ears of the dead and otherwise mutilated corpses. Perhaps with the end in sight, there is some impulse to introduce a belated battlefield politesse. The new policy of helicoptering in a chaplain to hold funerals for the enemy took effect when Brigadier General James F. Hamlet assumed command of the division's 3rd Brigade. Said one brigade officer: "The general feels it is the humane thing...
...usually takes prodigious effort, great motivation and many extra years for women to break into the command echelons of business. Often women have to start their own companies to get there at all. Here are four examples of women who have made...