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...difficult to envision a stalemated U.S. where deficits persist, interest rates remain high, the dollar remains high and manufacturing investment low. Productivity gains will remain low, imports will remain high, growth will remain low, unemployment will range from to 10 percent, and unemployment will be a battleground where competing interests fight for a bigger share of a pie which grows very slowly, and in so doing they will prevent enactment of some of the policy changes needed to get the pie (GNP) growing again...
More important even than money power is the power of television. Television is the main battleground for public opinion in our time, and professional campaign designers try to outwit television news masters in a game of mask-ing-and-unmasking, or "I've got a secret" against "This is their secret." Television reaches its climax in the so-called great debates. For forgotten reasons these debates, sponsored by the League of Women Voters, wander like a traveling road show from city to city. They are vital as a display of contending personalities, but they have degenerated into quiz shows...
Your discussion of early learning aptly uses the term battleground to label the debate over appropriate kindergarten teaching. As with any fight, this one also has casualties. In this case, it is the youngster whose childhood is being invaded who is the victim...
Kindergarten used to be a playground. Then it became a training ground. Now it may become a battleground. In Los Angeles, kindergarten teachers are assigning homework. In Minneapolis, "competency tests" help decide which tots advance to the first grade. A full day of classes has become the rule for all New York City kindergartens. But in neighboring Connecticut, an outcry helped to defeat statewide full-day legislation, and more protests are being heard across the country as pressure grows for tougher early schooling...
...accomplishment. There is rarely a true reckoning; death and memory seem only to prolong the sense of contest. Sons of famous men find the scorekeeping particularly onerous: whatever the offspring's achievements, both generations are likely to suspect that the father's glory enhanced them. That psychic battleground is toured by Michael J. Arlen, 53, a journalist, memoirist and television critic of The New Yorker, yet seemingly fated to be known always as the son of the celebrated '20s novelist Michael Arlen (The Green Hat). Say Goodbye to Sam is told in the first person, and much...