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...even more alarming and often irreversible deterioration may take place before corrective measures are taken. The concern of environmentalists is that industrialists will continue to use delaying tactics to put off costly capital improvements necessary to reduce emissions. Says Richard Ayres, chairman of the National Clean Air Coalition, an amalgam of environmentalist groups: "The costs [for cleaning up emissions] aren't trivial. But neither is the damage. A nation that can afford to spend $5 billion a year on video games can afford the same amount to save its lakes and forests...
Political scientists Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter have written a new book in which they retrace some of the most significant events of the Sixties, presumably to remind readers of the genuine political transformations spurred by that amalgam of civil rights, anti-war, and university reform groups collectively known as the New Left. After asserting the fundamental importance of the leftist thrust, the authors launch a complex critique of its Jewish leadership on predominantly white campuses, combining a variety of psychological and sociological assessments with an unsubtle desire to expose the "real" motives behind the rhetoric...
...conducted in July by the respected Allensbach Institute showed that the Christian Democrats could win an outright majority of 53.7% in national elections, in contrast to an alltime low of 31.4% for the Social Democrats and a dangerously thin 5.1% for the Free Democrats. The Greens-Alternative List, an amalgam of leftists, environmentalists, pacifists and other radical groups, would win an unprecedented 9%. The result represented a dramatic decline for Schmidt's coalition, which had won a combined 53.8% in October 1980, vs. 44.5% for the Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union...
...Hebrew psalms, which begins with the sound of two hands clapping and ends in a full-throated blaze of hallelujahs. For both Reich and the style of which he is a leading representative, the concert will be a cause of celebration. Minimalism, a joyous, exciting-and sometimes maddening-amalgam of influences as disparate as African drumming, the Balinese gamelan and new wave rock, has come uptown at last...
...Post-Conservative America. "The Reagan electorate," he writes, "is an extremely unusual Republican constituency," since it comprises two nontraditionally G.O.P factions: a broad swath of working-class voters as well as the smaller, messianic New Right. Because the deep appeal for the New Right was Reagan's impossible amalgam of "various nostalgias and backward-looking vistas" and "a desire for bold measures," the presidential task of "successfully fulfilling such electoral hopes is likely to be difficult. Hence," Phillips writes, "Reagan's coalition is most probably unstable...