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...emphasis, but a complete overhaul. To be sure, Communism scored great accomplishments in turning backward Russia into a major industrial power in half a century, with a G.N.P. approaching $600 billion. But the development has been uneven. The Soviet command-style economy, with its rigid planning, central controls and bias against experimentation, simply no longer works effectively. Specialization demands decentralization. No single, central planning agency can fine-tune a diversified modern economy. The industrialized world has passed into a new and more mature technological stage in which, as Wayne State Professor Richard Burks puts it, "Economic growth will depend...
...forces opposing abortion are developing their own battery of sophisticated ethical arguments. Some are old theological positions updated; others borrow from Western legal tradition; still others offer modern sociological, medical and scientific evidence. All of those arguments are examined in three solidly reasoned books that share one bias: a pronounced concern for human life, including fetal life...
James W. Wetzler, a second-yeargraduate student, contradicting Rosovsky's statement, said that the faculty did indeed have an anti-radical political bias. To support this he read parts of a letter of recommendation written by Professor Richard E. Caves to the department of economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook about Herbert M. Cintis, then a graduate student...
Hovels. Young's most publicized plea was for a "domestic Marshall plan" to help U.S. blacks recover from "more than three centuries of abuse, humiliation, segregation and bias...
Apart from the priorities of his sexual sympathy, Mailer's other avowed bias is his reverence for the question of women and sex and the fear it inspires in him. "No thought was so painful as the idea that sex had meaning," he tells us. "For give meaning to sex and one was the prisoner of sex." For Mailer, "giving meaning to sex" entails emphasizing the differences between the sexes-their desires and their roles. It also means exploring (and sometimes exploiting) the perplexities of sexuality-Since these two concerns build the walls of Mailer's prison, they must...