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...Love a Piano, and Garrison Keillor reciting All Alone. But then there were the lows: tinny amplification, an overpowering brass section, Bea Arthur's oomphless Hostess with the Mostes' and Leonard Bernstein's self- indulgent twelve-tone parody of A Russian Lullaby. Bernstein was also notable for ad hoc choreography. In seamless motion during the final bows, he embraced Shirley Maclaine, knelt before Marilyn Horne and lodged himself beside Frank Sinatra. The show is ended -- thank God, Berlin's melodies linger...
...pools of minorities are never an occasion for failing to undertake long-range tasks involved in increasing the pools. Long-range tasks involve recruiting increased numbers of minority graduate students, and similar measures. Nor should the absence of large pools be used to justify the absence of ad hoc attempts in the short-run to attract qualified minority faculty, perhaps by recruiting them from other institutions. From my own conversations with Dean Spence, this opinion is consistent with his own view...
...color to his message and qualifications, which do not appeal to the mainstream." Jesse Jackson has enough liabilities just from being Jesse all these years. Early on, he earned the reputation of being a solo act, alienating even his colleagues in the civil rights movement. He prefers ad hoc decision making to planning, and leaves subordinates behind to tie up, or frequently not to tie up, loose ends...
...increase also will enable the Undergraduate Council to reconsider its policy of urging all grant applicants to become financially independent, said Council Treasurer Gregg P. Sands '88-'89. The council has formed an ad hoc committee to review the grants procedures in anticipation of the new funding, Sands said. He added that groups like Amnesty International and Room 13 have difficulty raising money on their...
...very disappointed," said Warren Professorof Legal History Morton J. Horwitz, who appearedbefore Bok's external review committee in supportof Dalton. "President Bok's ad hoc committee didnot consider the question of whether there wasdiscrimination...