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There are those who like history and those who like novels; both classes of readers are apt to be depressed by historical novels. This form of literature, which requires a strict convention of disbelief, is perfectly exemplified in The Winthrop Woman, a bulging package of period color, religion, sex, sadism and witchcraft. It is written in what can only be called Williamsburg prose-the settings and costumes are as authentic as money and research can buy, and if the hands and heads that stick through the quaint old collars and cuffs are stuffed with straw, there will be no complaints...
...Capitalist Manifesto approaches economics and political science, where expediency is apt to rule, in terms of morality and natural law. It asks not only "Will it work?" but above all "Is it just...
...this is apt to sound like pie-machine-in-the-sky, Kelso-Adler back up their ideas with concrete-and controversial -proposals. Among their suggestions: equity-sharing plans, distribution to stockholders of all corporate profits in the case of "mature" corporations, abolition of corporate income taxes and revision of personal income taxes, abolition of inheritance taxes. (At times, the program has the ring of "Capitalists of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your tax forms.") All capitalists-meaning, eventually, all citizens-would get a just return for their investments, limited only by another requirement of justice: that...
Twenty years ago, after a temporary defeat, Bob Young wrote a verse that now seemed more apt...
...denies that, taken together the economic indicators have correctly mirrored the downturn in the economy. But just as the main indicators exaggerated the rise by failing to note price hikes and ignoring some slumping areas, so now they are apt to give an exaggerated picture of the drop since they ignore segments of the economy that are steady or rising. So great is the latitude for individual interpretation that last week three of the nation's top economists, looking at the same set of indexes, made three different conclusions. One saw an upturn coming "during the year" another hazarded...