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Beckerman, 52, a tailor's son who managed to get to Cambridge after the war on an ex-serviceman's scholarship, enjoys the jousting with the doomsayers. The most ardent conservationists, he scoffs, are elitists with a "trendy" argument that rarely gets more sophisticated than "stopping the earth at once before it's too late." This aristocratic posture, he says, allows the well-heeled to display "exquisite sensibilities, moral virtue and subtle perceptions." What upper-class conservationists are really concerned about, he insists, is saving their "salmon streams and grouse moors." Little fuss is ever made...
Major hit musicals rarely attract cult followings. Everybody enjoys them. But in the semi-hit ranks, certain shows acquire ardent admirers who tend to feel that their pet musical has certain special qualities that the general audience does not fully appreciate It may be the tuneful charm or sophistication of the score or the sentiments expressed in the book, but such a play becomes a kind of collector's item for theatrical cognoscenti...
...AUBURN-FOLSOM PROJECT. The fight over the $1 billion scheme on California's American River provides a case study in the realities of water politics. Governor Jerry Brown, an ardent environmentalist, had campaigned for office as an opponent of new dams, but the severe drought, which has forced some of his Northern California constituents to haul water by the bucket, has changed Brown's mind. When Carter put Auburn-Folsom on his list, Brown came out in favor of the project, which is designed to irrigate 29,000 acres and provide supplemental water to 387,000 more. Brown...
...Trading with the Third World. Kissinger toyed with the idea of commodity price stabilization agreements that would insulate developing countries from wild swings in their earnings from export sales of raw materials, but Ford's Treasury Secretary, William Simon, an ardent free-trader, knocked it down. No such conflicts have shown up in the Carter Administration. The President, while not committing the U.S. to stabilization plans, seems willing to discuss them. The Administration last week informed a United Nations meeting in Geneva that it is ready to talk about the financing of stabilization plans...
...women who have taught them. Some such figures are already legends-Paul Freund of Harvard, for example, or Philip Kurland of Chicago. But among the generation now in midcareer, there are also a remarkable number of gifted law professors: brilliant scholars, provocative teachers, concerned public servants, ardent advocates-often all combined in one impressive individual. With the counsel of judges and lawyers, students and teachers, TIME has selected ten outstanding ones...