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Four months ago, Pollak published a broadside by Novelist Sol Yurick that blasted U.S. journalism for not accepting the Symbionese Liberation Army on its own terms. Yurick pursued the absurd argument that if the S.L.A. called a kidnaping an "arrest," the press should go along; otherwise, journalists were guilty of Establishment bias. For the current issue, Author Joseph Epstein (Divorced in America) has written an essay called "The Media as Villain." In dis cussing journalism's problems, he casually laid on some heavy indictments...
...discussion about a slowdown in population growth, one of the most important issues is whether or not economic growth must necessarily slow down too. "It is absurd not to link zero population growth with zero economic growth," argues Hauser. But Stephen Enke of General Electric's research organization, TEMPO, disagrees. A rapidly growing population generates a large labor force, he says, which in turn has in the past generated large increases in the gross national product. A stationary population, on the other hand, could produce zero economic growth-if other factors remain unchanged. But, maintains Enke, as population growth...
Women associated with Radcliffe remain as split on the issue as do their Harvard counterparts; in fact, their disagreement may have even more far-reaching implications. Though it may seem absurd that solidarity among women on this campus can only be achieved by ignoring the issue of merger, that certainly appears to be the case
Such vast quantities of fissionable materials not only raise the specter of nuclear proliferation but also of deranged people or extremists making their own nuclear weapons. It no longer is absurd to imagine Palestinian terrorists or urban guerrillas stealing enough Pu-239, hiring scientists and manufacturing an easily transportable nuclear explosive. As Arms Expert Dr. Theodore B. Taylor points out, one terrorist group with one bomb could blackmail a metropolis. The University of Virginia's Willrich fears that some day a black market in fissionable materials could develop, with syndicates of organized criminals stealing from private reactors and selling...
...Bruce's genius, he writes in a style charged with Bruce's own idiom and raging humor and amazingly achieves in print something approaching the same verbal energy. You cannot read his harrowing descriptions of Bruce's needle ravaged limbs or his raucously humorous passages describing Lenny's absurd, infantile and frequently brutal relationships without entering deeply into the man's experience...