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Your reviewer tried putting a feather in my back by writing that while Paar put on Zsa Zsa Gabor and Buddy Hackett, Cavett presented Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles and Lester Maddox. Your research and/or bias could just as honestly have stated that while Cavett presented Tiny Tun, George Jessel and Totie Fields, Paar put on John and Robert Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Dr. Albert Schweitzer...
Princeton economist Richard A. Lester published a book this summer that voices the concerns of the anti-affirmative action camp. In it Lester argues that federally-imposed affirmative action programs constitute a serious government attack on the independence and integrity of academia. He also claims that the introduction of racial, ethnic and sexual considerations into faculty searches has led to a reduction in the overall quality of teaching staffs at universities all across the country...
Rosovsky met with Lester soon after he took his post in University Hall. "I don't agree with Lester," he says. "I didn't think affirmative action was a disaster. I think it has very positive aspects. Dilution of quality would result only if the University were forced to employ underqualified women and minorities, but we have not done that...
Walter Leonard thinks Lester is saying "what a good number of people would also like to say in the open." Lester, Leonard says, "unfortunately has as much impact on Harvard as he is having on other universities...
...Cavett briskly offered him another chair to contain his giant intellect. While the Jack Paars or the Merv Griffins or the Johnny Carsons put on guests like Zsa Zsa Gabor and Buddy Hackett, Cavett is likely to capture such provocative types as Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles and Lester Maddox...