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Spinning as swiftly as a bicycle wheel, Barnet Kellman's direction unerringly maintains the taut tempo of the work. The W.P.A. (Workshop of the Players Art) Theater has brought us, in Wade, a bona fide playwrighting find...
...SOLUTION to the nation's problems could lie in dramatic changes in the current form of American democracy. Barnet suggests that the structure of the government cannot adequately cope with democratic resource planning, and that American's perception of the impact of their participation in government must change...
...Barnet believes Americans have less control over the direction of their country than they realize, and he does not think that they base or are capable of basing their decisions about natural resources on an accurate understanding of world systems...
Even management at the executive level of government may be unable to solve the resource problem within the confines of the American nation-state, much of which Barnet feels is a facade, since neither political party has what he would call a national program. "The last three elected presidents have been from the Sun Belt, but they have found the country ungovernable. None succeeded in carrying through a major domestic energy program," he says, and when asked, criticizes the Carter administration for its gross misperception of the energy situation. "Carter's inability to handle the energy situation is just...
...Lean Years Barnet constructs a middle ground where the American public and big businesses share blame for the world resource crisis. As a member of the Institute of Policy Studies, he demonstrates the ability of an outsider from the federal government to present a more cogent and cohesive view of problems than spokesmen for Washington, who have kept the public in a muddle. His overview may be more pessimistic than most offered to the American public, but the weight of his examination of public policy should serve as a signal to the White House that Americans want, and are capable...