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...admissions office makes even less of a pretense of being fair when it comes to subjective criteria. These criteria always involve evaluation by an individual who seldom can or will be fair to Third World students. An example of this is the way the admissions office looks at grade point averages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minority Recruitment A Third World, a Different World | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

...juxtaposition culminate in those stage presentations designated "Events," which his company has performed periodically since 1964. In an Event, Cunningham combines a series of discrete sequences from previously-choreographed dances to form a continuous whole, with one sequence often beginning before another has ended. The music and costumes are seldom those used with the original dances, and although the program lists the works from which the sequences are extracted it is rarely possible to tell what is being performed when...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: Dance on its Own Two Feet | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

While the intent of the recent shift of power from the White House to Congress is to improve and democratize our Government, it does not always work out that way. Senators and Congressmen seldom rise above the interests of their constituents, whereas the President is more likely to act in the interest of all the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1978 | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...intellectual inferiors. His personal motto is "Reason over passion." Trudeau is a political theorist turned political activist who thinks of himself as a philosopher-statesman. His public speeches frequently sound like university lectures. First elected Prime Minister in 1968, partly because of his Kennedy-like charismatic appeal, he has seldom been far from the front pages, some of which he would prefer to have avoided?most notably those recounting the stormy breakup last spring of the marriage to his young, attractive wife Margaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Secession v. Survival | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...days and into the night (his average work day is 12 hours), Turner spends his remaining time with his wife Patricia at their home in northwest Washington. His son Geoffrey is a Navy lieutenant stationed in Monterey, Calif. Daughter Laurel is married and lives in San Diego. Turner, who seldom drinks and does not smoke, likes to play tennis and squash or swim when he has the chance. His social life usually involves old friends from the Navy, not new ones from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaping Tomorrow's CIA | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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