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...most of the world's poor, poverty is real, and so omnipresent that they can think of nothing else. But there are also a few oddballs around who suffer from "imaginary poverty," Dr. Archibald Beatson observes in the British Medical Journal. Theirs is a true psychosis, says the Worthing (Sussex) physician, because it includes two delusions: 1) that they cannot afford necessities, when in fact they have plenty of money for luxuries, and 2) that "life on earth will continue indefinitely." so they must not touch their capital "for fear of compromising the security of this interminable future." This...
...self-contained, although the characters move throughout the book and all the limits fit into a larger story. The counter-pointed stories, which concern two groups of boys who grew up in New York City, have been praised by three College Professors, Monroe Engle '42, Albert J. Guerard, and Archibald MacLeish...
...Welfare State. In its economics, the platform offers a kind of Populism that has gone to Harvard (home of Kennedy's professorial advisers John Kenneth, Galbraith and Archibald Cox). Instead of lacing the "wolves of Wall Street" and the bankers for such high crimes as tight money and high interest rates, it blames Republican Washington-and offers a glittering prospect if the Democrats are returned to office. The platform makes bows to the free-enterprise system ("the most creative and productive form of economic order that the world has seen") and to fiscal sobriety ("needs can be met with...
...Henry Steele Commager and Washington Lawyer Joseph Rauh, onetime chairman of Americans for Democratic Action. In Manhattan, a regiment of eggheads closed the gap in their ranks with a Draft Stevenson Committee, signed a loyalty pledge supporting their favorite candidate. Among the signers: Poets Carl Sandburg and Archibald MacLeish. Authors John Steinbeck and John Hersey, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Critic John Mason Brown, Playwright-Producer George Abbott, Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein...
...ARCHIBALD I. MCCOLL KALAMAZOO, MICH...