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...same room. It was marvelous to see these minds meet, so brilliant. We'd leave thinking that everything was fabulous." There were many versions of why all efforts to fix 1600 failed: Bernstein's score was more like an opera than a musical comedy; the show was racist; the chorus couldn't act; Corsaro botched the staging; the producers, not having put up the original money, didn't exert enough control; and so on. But almost everyone agreed that the overriding problem was Lerner's original idea. Says Ramin: "No amount of staging, acting, choreography...
...controversy sparked by the editorial of Professor Bernard D. Davis in the May 11, 1976 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine about minorities at medical schools was something of value. It demonstrated that racist remarks (regardless of whether their maker intended them to be racist) will not go unchallenged...
...Crimson is putting similar social pressure on Prof. Bernard Davis. They are distorting Davis's statements until anyone would find them objectionable and then calling him a racist. Davis's letter to The Crimson (May 19) seems highly articulate and rational; why dispute him on an emotional level? Again, in a thinking society can we condone the repression of ideas...
...position opens up it is unlikely that the most qualified applicant will by chance be a member of the race or minority group that is needed to fill the quota slot open at that time. In this case the most qualified applicant will lose his opportunity because of racist considerations. If the most qualified applicant does happen to belong to the right minority group, then the quotas are irrelevant because the person will be chosen anyway, if the basis for selection is merit...
...true that some people will not live their lives on the principles one thinks they should and that they will employ racist and sexist criteria in their associations with other people. The proper recourse in such an event is an attempt at persuasion, and ultimately a refusal to associate with such people. But in a free society, the ultimate decisions on how people live their lives should be left up to them. In the long run, freedom will extirpate all racist doctrines, which cannot survive without the support of coercive government power...