Dept. of understatement. Illinois EPA water-pollution-control manager James Park, commenting on the $30,000 fine levied on a fertilizer plant that contaminated ten miles of the Apple River in northwestern Illinois: “The beauty of Apple Creek State Park was spoiled that summer with thousands of dead fish floating in the river.”
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Is that a threat or a promise? Roosevelt University president Theodore L. Gross to the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce (Renaissance, April 1): “Roosevelt University wants to do for Arlington Heights what Northwestern University did for Evanston.”
“The risk to justice from pseudo-science is substantial,” said Chicago federal judge James Zagel in refusing to hear the testimony, not of an astrologer or a faith healer, but of an economist, who would have offered expert testimony in a personal-injury lawsuit (Business Week, April 22).
No, but it makes a better target. “It would be absurd to deny the existence of real inequities in the art world’s representation of nonwhite artists,” writes Eleanor Heartney in the New Art Examiner (April). “But is the art world really the moral equivalent of David Duke’s Louisiana? Is it really as exclusionary as, say, the average corporate boardroom?”
