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...into socialist planning. Gdansk, the former German city of Danzig, is only a short ferryboat ride from Swedish Malmo across the Baltic, and is regularly invaded by fun-loving Swedes seeking beaches, booze and beaming blondes who are a soft touch for hard currency. West Germans are so obviously affluent that Poles ask one another sarcastically which of the two nations lost World War II. Never rapier-sharp at best, Polish humor has been improving on a diet of meatless Mondays, ersatz coffee and phantom slabs of butter. "I don't worry when my wife is missing for several...
...scene abroad. At one point, a British official told him that unless inflation was curbed, "the whole fabric of society as we know it could come apart." Apocalyptic, perhaps, but the climate of concern led the editors to undertake a thorough study of inflation as a worldwide threat to affluent nations...
Population gain, of course, is no longer entirely a source of the civic booster's pride. It offends the ecological sensibility. Yet it remains crucial to underdeveloped regions such as Appalachia and urban centers that watch their affluent whites desert to suburbs, eroding the tax base and more simply the fund of human beings on whom congressional representation and the apportionment of federal funds depend. More people to get more money to care for more people. The Malthusian Catch...
Joseph Silverstein is the BSO's concertmaster, and first violin of the Chamber Players. An affable middle-aged man with very long sideburns, he could pass for the principal of an affluent and progressive suburban high school. It is easy to understand why the BSO's press officers like to have him act as a spokesman for the orchestra: he has a pleasant, reassuring manner and a way of keeping in control of interviews. Sitting in a comfortable armchair in a Symphony Hall anteroom, he seems to actually enjoy being asked the same old questions once more. (As we talk...
...NATIONAL need seems clear enough," the report says. "Early education is failing to provide millions of children, particularly poor children, with the personal and cognitive resources they need to surmount the social circumstances in which they find themselves. Educational reform, especially educational reform for the less affluent, must deal concretely with very young children; for the pattern of failure and withdrawal established for many children by the middle elementary grades is very difficult to reverse...