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Depression; he was schooled in governmental activism by the New Deal. As he scaled the political ladder in the years following World War II, Americans expected increasing benefits from Government, and L.B.J. was happy to provide them. He subscribed to what could be called a politics of plenty: more of everything for everybody. He was the ideal President for the insatiable 1960s...
...athletic pursuits, adds a new dimension to political satire: physical comedy. Typical is the opening scene to the December 20th show. Chase, as Ford, climbs to the top of a 15-ft. Christmas tree. While cutting off the branches--Betty told him to trim it--he stumbles from the ladder and falls spectacularly to the wooden floor. As the crowd roars its approval, Chase lifts his head and yells, "Live from New York: It's Saturday Night!" The weekly fall has become Chase's trademark, and having a president with a reputation of clumsiness has all but shoved him into...
...having acknowledged the fact, Bok passes on, as if the number of black and Spanish surname Ph.D.'s was an act of God beyond the control of the blameless universities. Affirmative action law recognizing that discrimination at one rung of the ladder affected hiring at all higher rungs applied rules to student admissions as well as to faculty hiring...
...nation. He might as well have stuck to Harvard, where the statistics are almost as gloomy. In a few areas there has been progress, but black admissions are down in some schools, most of Harvard's small number of female teachers perch tenuously on the lower rungs of the ladder, and blacks still comprise less than two per cent of the tenured faculty. Not impressive, assuredly, and one possible reaction would be to condemn all attempts to improve the situation. Just as plausible, however, would be to condemn the situation itself...
Kaplan played number seven on the squash ladder two years ago, number three last winter and advanced to the top position this season as Harvard dethroned Princeton as intercollegiate champions...