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...bodies, should not decide what is morally right and wrong for society, but that this power should be left to the judges. Thus, to a limited extent, he advocates an increase in government by men as opposed to government by law. Such a system has long existed in certain backward, impoverished, rural areas of our country, and is noted for its injustices...
Journalists, as everyone knows, are compulsive (and sometimes compelled) travelers. Journeys in pursuit of stories often produce separate excursions backward in time, flights of nostalgia and memory that help a skilled observer feel his way into the subject he is covering...
...argues that "from a social point of view, home industry is slave labor. It is obviously wrong. It would be better to drop it altogether." Yet he concedes, "It works. Black labor acts as a shock absorber enabling Italy to survive economic crises." His conclusion: "This is a very backward -and yet advanced-way of doing things...
First the front page, of course. Then Sulzberger turns to the obituaries ("Super! I'm not here today, ha ha!") and on to the financial tables ("Super! Our stock's up!"). Now backward toward the front page again, ripping out headlines, paragraphs and whole stories that either please or peeve him, depositing the clippings on his night table for future action. Exhausted, Punch the Ripper flings the eviscerated carcass to the floor. And as the clock strikes 12, he sinks into the sweet sleep of a man who knows, as his paper's motto has it, all the news that...
Even the less active will find the parks fascinating, and why not? Viewing the strata exposed by the river in the Grand Canyon, the wind-weathered landscape of Bryce Canyon or the waterworn stalactites of Carlsbad Caverns is like looking backward through time. To watch an alligator glide through the Everglades is to see a world still unsullied by technology. Seeing a black bear beg for food beside a highway in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (the most popular in the system, with 11.4 million visitors last year) is proof that even in this age of the atom...