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...said he had sent a message to the leaders of Europe setting what he called "a specific date" by which the U.S. "would expect this common effort to be successful." It turned out later that he was really talking about mid-May. Carter also implied that the U.S. would resort to military action if need...
...Afro-American Studies defies belief. That such rejection could today revolve around Professor Genovese's use of some Marxist analytical methods (though quite subdued if not invisible in his Bancroft Prize book, Roll, Jordan, Roll) and his interest in Socialist politics also defies belief. That this petty and obscene resort to McCarthyite use of ideological criteria for faculty appointments at Harvard, hardly a week after President Derek C. Bok issued his courageous and cogent memorandum denouncing such McCarthyite behavior in our universities, was offered to the Harvard community without explanation also defies belief. The action by the Executive Committee...
...initial goals had been achieved. Now that 98.7% of American farms have lights, the Rural Electrification Administration has kept alive by moving into telephone and even cable TV loans. The Farmers Home Administration, which was set up to help farmers buy land, has guaranteed credit to a ski resort, a distressed steel company and at least two Ramada Inns. Financial hardship is not always a criterion. In 1978 Congress opened the student loan program, which charges only 7% interest, to everyone, regardless of the size of their parents' bank balances...
Cyra McFadden's comic bestseller, The Serial, was as much journalism as satire. In order to devastate her prey, the trendy, upper-middle-class denizens of Marin County, Calif., McFadden did not resort to barbed wisecracks: she merely let her characters speak for themselves. Like Director-Writer Paul Mazursky in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, she understood that the affluent, desperate hipsters of the Far West are their own worst enemies. There is no point in making fun of people who are already self-parodies...
...argues that if universities resort to ideological or doctrinal tests in making appointment decisions they risk...