Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STEPS, by Jerzy Kosinski. In his second novel, the author of The Painted Bird coolly describes a series of acts of voyeurism, cruelty and revenge that combine to form a shocking picture of a pathological mind...
...others have been mentioned. Jane Jacobs, an astute urban gadfly (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), says New York should be divided into units of 100,000. A recent Royal Commission recommended reorganizing London into boroughs of about 200,000 (London already has limited decentralization). Author Lewis Mumford, one of the foremost students of the city, is more flexible. A "humanly lovable city," he says, "must range somewhere between 30,000 and 300,000 people...
...When one takes snuff," says Negotiator Theodore Kheel, "the others all sneeze." The growth of militant civil service unions, a cause of both strikes and higher budgets, is a nationwide phenomenon -and was actually encouraged by Lindsay's Democratic predecessor, Robert Wagner, son of the author of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Wagner's cozy policy was to play along with the unions and give them most of what they wanted, thus piling up huge due-bills without much thought of the future. Still, Wagner (now U.S. Ambassador to Spain) was an extremely skillful negotiator. Another Mayor with...
...police headquarters. And that, it seemed, was that-unless one had read a novel published in Paris last spring, predicting on a specific October Sunday, in a city exactly like Madrid, a man wearing posters calling for free elections would stroll down a crowded street. The author of the novel was, of course, Arias...
...lawyer would ever try to make a case for the Mafia? Luigi Barzini, for one. The Mafia "gives the Sicilians some sort of order in a country governed by foreign oppressors," said the Italian author-journalist in a discussion with students at Los Angeles' Occidental College. "The Mafia man uses the family and will not do degenerate things-he'll have nothing to do with heroin or prostitution." All of which leads Barzini to believe that Lucky Luciano, deported from the U.S. in 1946 as an undesirable alien who dabbled in dames, was never really a Mafia...