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Died. James Barren Carey, 62, feisty anti-Communist union leader and onetime boy wonder of the American labor movement; of a heart attack; in Silver Spring, Md. To counter the infiltration of leftists in his United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, Carey took most of the members with him and founded the rival International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers in 1950. He remained president of the I.U.E. until his defeat by the present leader, Paul Jennings, in a 1965 election...
These are chilling winds so soon after the summer, though they must be blessed relief to some brows. But most Americans are raised to seek the sun and its warmth, and for these Americans, the grim prophecy of so cool a fall is clear. There is a long barren winter ahead in American politics...
Designers claim that the structure will look more foliated than the barren space that it replaces. Critics say that the compromise between unobtrusiveness and some degree of exposure to light and air for those who will use the library has resulted in a building which is neither inconspicuous nor aesthetically pleasing. In any case, the undergraduates who will carefully avoid the construction site will not be permitted inside once Pusey is finished. Everyone except graduate students, Faculty, and those who need to use special collections will be turned away from the library...
...zany creature that the public saw, all that campy, trivial bluster, was real enough in its way, it was far from the substance of her deeper glow," writes Myra Friedman in Buried Alive (Morrow; $7.95). "The hysteria, the extravagance, and the foolish noise were a barren fuss embraced by barren hearts, and it was a lost child who would kick up such rubbish to gain entrance into rooms so empty." Written with a sympathetic intelligence, at times fiercely lyrical, Buried Alive is an honest book about Joplin the idol and Joplin the victim in the frantic, manic disarray of rock...
...Helen Reddy Show: The bad format of a variety show taken to its logical barren conclusion. Take the most consistently banal, if not truly offensive performer on the popular scene and fill the hour with bad guests. She claims to be a feminist, yet permits such racist chauvinist crap as Flip Wilson's Geraldine act to take place on her show. Feminism would be far better off without such plasticized, consumer-oriented pablum as this...