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...GLORIA EMERSON 406 pages. Random House...
...advisory body, with only its Faculty members participating. Second, its composition favors Faculty opinion over students' by a seven to six majority, destroying the sense of equality implied in the Resolution. Third, the Faculty members of the committee are elected by the Faculty, while student members are chosen at random; thus Faculty choice of the character of their arbiters is preserved while student choice is denied...
...capped, his middle is girdled, his voice is a husk and his eyes film over with glassy impersonality." So reads the description of Elvis Presley at age 40 in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. Rock musicians are stoned with praise and putdowns in this new anthology (Random House; $19.95). Elton John is called "a pudgy robot" who is "an object of pubescent sexual fantasy." Singer-Songwriter Joni Mitchell, writes Contributor Janet Maslin, did not recognize her "giddy romanticism" until she had recorded six albums. As for Janis Joplin, who died in 1970 of a drug overdose, Writer...
Actually, the system that the task force had in mind is hardly a random one. There would be adjustments made within the computer filling the assignments for those who want to stay with friends. Freshmen would be allowed to transfer Houses at the end of the year. Minorities and other groups would be evenly distributed. And, in what would be a minor throwback to the days before the random choice system currently used, masters would be allowed to select a limited number of students for their Houses...
Fallows was a Rhodes Scholar and has written for numerous magazines and newspapers. Before taking his position on the Carter staff, he was writing an article for the New Yorker Magazine and a book for Random House...