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...seems to be the ideal person," Garber said yesterday. "She's deeply committed, highly informed and very energetic...
...some minority groups, individual centers for each group would be the optimal solution. "At this point, we are in support of either [a multicultural center or a Black students center]," Ali says, "but the ideal situation would be a center for any group that feels it needs a center, so that we could avoid competition for resources, which are so little...
...youngsters learn social skills through fantasy war games. Most of the favorite American kids' films, from The Wizard of Oz to E.T. and Home Alone, are rites of self-reliance. Children face adult obstacles (or rather, superhero torture tests) and in surmounting them become adults (or rather, Hollywood's ideal of adults, as kids with weapons). Real parents are redundant in fables for latchkey kids; all authority figures are oafish, evil or, mostly, absent. The lost child finds his own way home...
Twenty years ago, Studs Terkel's Working explored the lives of Americans with jobs that seemed like long-term marriages, frustrating, satisfying, boring, rewarding: familiar, anyway, and built on a rock foundation. Careers had a kind of narrative line. It began with something like apprenticeship and then, in the ideal model, proceeded through hard work and merit to raises, promotions, success and eventual retirement with pension. Seniority and experience meant something: work was as close as Americans came to the Confucian. Getting fired was a disgrace, the scarlet letter...
...those societal restrictions that determine what partnering is "acceptable." But Jones and his dancers proceeded to disregard any such limitations. Their form of dance overcomes barriers of sociology and physiology, ignoring predefined gender roles and focusing wholly on the integrity of the movement. The company most effectively demonstrated this ideal in their performance of the first movement of "Soon," a duet created by Jones. The movement was performed three consecutive times by the three different couples: the first, a man and a women; the second, two women; and the third...