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Practically every American is familiar with some of the costs, in time and frustration, of this predicament. Almost everybody has from time to time-or, frequently, every day -submitted to the hopelessly clogged, bumper-to-bumper auto jams that not only afflict the big cities but immobilize the multimillion-dollar freeways that were devised to speed an auto-borne population on its way. He has walked a mile or more through the corridors of a palatial new airport just to get to and from his plane, then found himself so far from a city center that the time spent...
...Neurosis. These bogles, unlike most fancy-free elves, are not bores; malice and eloquence save them from that un-Irish condition. All of them turn on Trellis, afflict him with more boils (64) than Job's, and provoke him to a robust curse: "You hog of hell, you leper's death-puke!" A bleak, black coda to the book-within-a-book says enigmatically: "Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop." Was Trellis mad? It is hard to say. Was he a victim of hallucinations? Professor Unternehmer, the German neurologist, allows...
...legal-aid societies as well as public defenders tackled 620,000 cases. Yet the American Bar Foundation estimates that 1,400,000 indigents a year are tried without lawyers in U.S. courts -to say nothing of the problems that afflict millions of other poor Americans whose rights are often routinely ignored by landlords, merchants and faceless welfare agencies. The result, say experts, is the breeding of a dangerous disbelief in equal justice...
...intelligent Americans dispute the gravity of many ills that afflict the nation, from hard-core unemployment to rotten-core cities, poisoned air to polluted waters, or question the need to attack them vigorously. No amount of legislation will root out racial prejudice or inspire the excellence that is dismayingly absent from many aspects of American life. Nonetheless, as Author Wattenberg points out, "in American history, the evidence suggests that it is the optimist who has been the realist." At least, this side of the Great Society, Americans do not have to be ashamed to count their blessings...
...well. To day, Western Europe is prosperous and at peace. And yet, as the nations last week commemorated Hitler's Zusam-menbruch, the very way they went about it proved - for all the gleaming miracles of glass and stone - how wide spread are the new divisions that afflict Europe two decades later...