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...appears to be little doubt that the new board will favor retention. Indeed some speculated that the representatives-elect were responsible for the old board's shift on the question of student choice. In straw votes on January 14 CHUL indicated that it favored recommending that a system of random student assignments at the end of freshman year be used for one to three years. But a week later, in its final meeting, the 1975 CHUL turned a quick about-face, recommending to Rosovsky that any future assignment system allow student choice. Yet betraying some lingering uncertainty CHUL decided...
Taking off from tunes by Jelly Roll Morton, "Eight Jelly Rolls" (1971) buries its structure and, true to Tharp's dictum, unearths random scatter. Six female dancers tease the music's rhythm, gliding over and diving under the beat, tearing through its even sounding. At first lost in inward spirals of movement, the six cohere as a group, parody a nightclub act and, later, back Tharp's solo disheveling. Shivers running down their spines, the dancers seem to shed a second skin, as if leaving shreds of themselves behind...
...irony mounts as the cases to be tried are randomly selected from among the folders of hundreds of political prisoners. Though none of them has been sentenced to more than five years, prosecutors rummage through tons of paper, choosing for death those folders that look appealing; "two Communists, two Anarchists and...two Jews. That's about right." An entirely random process decides the lives...
...election year, the conventional political wisdom often proves to be neither conventional nor wise. Herewith a random test...
...knowledge I don't have. But it won't do you much good unless you bring it out, find its main themes together, and begin to explain why things are as they are. I see this class as a good chance to do that; let me pick somebody at random and we'll give...