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...alarming--as Brown-Beasley himself has noted--that these procedures--which provide Harvard such amazing latitude--are essentially part of the University's affirmative action plan. What besides the cumbersome appeal procedure is to prevent a racist or sexist supervisor, for example, from using the escape clause to justify abrogation of "progressive" discipline...
...hours of pleasure. By this definition, a good musical is not a political, revolutionary art form, although Hair has some pretensions in this area (they failed). Probably the most stirring musical that also happened to be good was the original 1932 version of Showboat, when Paul Robeson changed the racist, stereotypical lines of "Old Man River" into a song of defiance, causing Oscar Hammerstein, the lyricist, to stomp off the practice stage muttering "Let the son of a bitch write his own goddam song...
...fair-housing laws, Ford is opposed to federal plans to break up homogeneous neighborhoods-a point he emphasizes while campaigning hard for the big-city ethnic vote. Ford may have hurt himself with blacks by not moving quickly enough to fire Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz after his racist remarks...
Houn also charged that because his division attempted to fill affirmative-action guidelines by hiring greater numbers of blacks and other minorities, many of the workers in the division were subjected to "racist remarks from other managers...
...universities. In the 1971 Federal court case of Baker et al. v. Columbus (Miss.) Municipal Separate School District et al., the court established that the Columbus school authorities' use of the National Teacher Exam (an ETS test) cut-off score of 1,000 for hiring and promotion created a racist classification. While 90 per cent of the white graduates of Mississippi colleges scores 1,000 or higher, 89 per cent of the black graduates scored below. The court ruled that the racial classification that this created (albeit inadvertently) constituted discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment and that "there is no convincing...