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...director, Manuel J. Justiz, had ignored the advice of a technical review panel that the New York college get the money instead. The panel gave Bank St. slightly higher marks for technical merit and economy, but Justiz was understood to have chosen Harvard because of the larger scope of its proposal and its greater resources...
...reply: "Vice Presidents are not cute.") The couple declared a net worth of $3.78 million, nearly all of it in real estate. They did not release copies of the IRS forms that Zaccaro files in connection with his businesses. Only those documents, experts say, would depict the full scope of his holdings and financial habits...
...thinks of the Big Bad World. He is like a fourth grader who will show but not tell. Authors need not supply a moral to every story, but Mailer is not even responsible or interested enough to include different points of view among his characters. Thus the social scope of the novel is harshly limited--which is a great pity, seeing that he can work with broad canvasses. In his reflexive fear of being thought simple-minded or today. Mailer is reduced to "convictionless" scene painting, to sentimentality, and to clutching at other people's semi-coherent and mysterious goodness...
...roof "collapsed like a pack of dominoes," in the words of one clergyman. After three hours, firemen managed to bring the blaze under control. They also succeeded in preventing the fire from spreading through the rest of the church. As daylight crept into the now roofless transept, the full scope of the tragedy became apparent: littered with six-foot-high piles of charred debris and fallen beams, the area resembled nothing so much as a bombed-out shell. But the destruction had been limited. Five-sixths of the church, including a huge wooden sculpture of the Virgin and Child, remained...
...only policy, threatened to cancel their charters. The Minnesota chapters fought back, citing the state's human rights act, which prohibits discrimination based on race or sex in public business facilities. The Jaycees argued in the Supreme Court that as a private fraternal group it was beyond the scope of discrimination laws, since such laws violated the organization's First Amendment right to "freedom of association." But, writing for the court, Justice Brennan concluded that "Minnesota's compelling interest in eradicating discrimination against its female citizens justifies the impact that application of the statute...