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President Ford does not have to worry about losing his job to Ronald Reagan if the former Governor of Califor nia maintains his stand that equal rights for women is encouraging attitudes toward sex and sex differences akin to those of dogs...
...clearly put a lot of effort into writing a depressing book. The mood of the book--a pervasive feeling that Kozol is facing the apocalypse, alone, abandoned by all his liberal friends from Somerville--often seems more important to Kozol than the content. The book seems somewhat more akin to Joseph Heller's Something Happened than to works of social science or social criticism, for both rely on waves of unrelenting pessimism to make their impact. In a novel, you can accept a lack of analysis, but in the social sciences, unadorned pessimism isn't enough...
...turn contemporary chili aficionados as lyrical as the 19th century chuckwagon cook. To the true believer, a sizzling chile con carne is manna from Montezuma, a concoction of beef, green peppers, herbs and other combustibles with an aroma, as the International Chili Society puts it, that "should generate rapture akin to a lover's kiss." As hot as the dish are the arguments that simmer around its preparation. Should a true chili include beans? Tomatoes? Corn meal? Onions? Is beef the best came? How many hours -or days-should it be cooked...
...will mean the certain death of a patient. Many doctors, after all, are taught to regard death as an enemy and to do all they can to defeat it-or at least to keep it at bay for a while. Many regard "pulling the plug" as an act akin to euthanasia, which is forbidden by both law and the medical code...
...only real laugh in the entire first act comes from an old comic saw--a mother walking in on a stranger in bed with her daughter--which the weary audience, finally seizing upon something it can recognize, greets with a feeling very much akin to relief...