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...FLEDGING adolescent a few years back I attempted to allay my middle-class guilt by adopting a philosophy of romantic asceticism. By keeping a frugal eye on my role as an American consumer, I was able to escape the mental anguish of coming from a financially comfortable family. At the same time I could strike a self-satisfying pose of identification with the underprivileged of the world. Only three things, I reasoned, justified any type of expenditure--books, records, and travel. These principles allowed me to obtain material happiness (books, records, and travel being all I really desired) while simultaneously...
Beamed into deep space from the troubled third planet of the solar system, the radio message constituted a small act of faith on behalf of all humankind. It expressed the conviction that we are not alone, that the joy and anguish of intelligent life are not an isolated accident on earth but have occurred often in the sweep of the universe. It also embodied the faith that humanity will survive, since it will be at least 48,000 years before our descendants can expect any answer...
Kill Them Again! At Qiryat Shemona, Ma'alot and Kibbutz Shamir -other border communities that had been shocked by fedayeen attacks earlier this year-the primary response was anguish and grief, as well as anger. Bet She'an was somehow different. An enraged mob hurled the bodies of the dead guerrillas from a second-story apartment window, kicked them, spat on them, stabbed them with sticks, then doused them with kerosene and set them afire. "Kill them again! Kill them again!" some shouted. Throwing back Israeli policemen who tried to smother the flames with blankets, the crowd chanted...
Although jurors anguish over how their decision will be judged by posterity, publishers are more concerned about how it will be received by this year's Christmas shoppers. The 50-franc ($10.63) prize money will scarcely allow Novelist Laine to do more than make a polite purchase of the runner-up's oeuvre. Nonetheless, the honor should secure his novel sales of up to half-a-million copies. Even if public taste should deem La Dentellière a "bad" Goncourt, the odds are that at least 200,000 Frenchmen will be reading what the author calls...
...runaway price of staples, a source of anguish to housewives and politicians, has spelled disaster to a considerably less vocal segment of U.S. society: the Southern moonshiner. All the essential ingredients of corn likker have skyrocketed: sugar (up 300% in a year), grain and yeast, as well as the copper used for piping and kettles and the plastic jugs in which illicit hooch is transported and sold. A gallon of moonshine that used to sell for $1 now goes for $6 or more. As a result, the tide of "white whisky" that used to flow from Appalachian hills and hollers...