Word: adler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Billy Adler and John Margolies were growing up in suburbia, their fathers wanted them to go into law or business. But Billy and John, now 26, decided: no way. Why? It was because of TV, Margolies says. TV turned them off anything that involved reading and on to entirely new ways of looking at life that their fathers never knew. Billy and John did read Marshall McLuhan, however, and earned their master's degrees in communications. They dabbled in teaching, ad copywriting, architecture criticism and still photography...
...Meir and her government are blamed for much of the difficulty. Says Hebrew University Sociologist Chaim Adler: "The people who have to make the decisions in Israel have had all their time, effort and energies taken up with war and international affairs. In peacetime we are discovering that poverty, discrimination, religious friction and labor unrest can be as divisive to our nation as the Hebrew language and the threat of war can be unifying...
...advisers, especially Budget Boss George Shultz and Economic Aide Herbert Stein, have in the past shown an ideological horror at any interference with free markets. Casting them as price-control planners, quips Robert Nathan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, is "like putting Polly Adler in charge of a convent...
...Northwest have been stuffed to overflowing with wheat and other products awaiting shipment. In Washington, 15 million bushels of wheat have been dumped, creating mountains on the ground, and some California growers will soon be forced to plow their crops under. "It's already too late," says Lee Adler, an official of the California Grain and Feed Growers Association. "Our Japanese customers have turned to Australia and South America. Some of them won't ever come back...
...Alinsky suggests, anger in politics substitutes for all other games the game of "Kill the umpire!" Far right and far left, the angry man in politics prefers the pleasure of being furious to the pleasure of actually having an effect. Demanding final solutions only, he chooses, in Critic Renata Adler's words, "to use the vocabulary of total violence, cultivate scorched-earth madness as a form of consciousness (of courage, even), to call history...