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Still, a hard core of confirmed Sibiryaki is slowly growing. They are a new breed: hardy, adventurous, optimistic, apparently enjoying the contest between man and nature. Most are young: the average age in Bratsk is 30, and the city has the highest birth rate in the Soviet Union...
...more stylish treatment than do the concerns of some Marxist or mathematically inclined historians. Of course, plenty of men with Plumb's interests fail as literary stylists, and it is to Plumb's eternal credit that he writes as well as he does. The liberal essayist is a dying breed, and the essay itself seems to be a declining form, not replaced, certainly, by the new journalism, but perhaps superceded by whatever it is that Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe write. It is a little difficult to imagine J.H. Plumb writing the novel as history or history as the novel...
...turned part of the responsibility over to someone he said had far more clout: the American housewife. At his news conference, the President asserted, in effect, that the Government can do nothing more to stop the spiral in food prices. Controls on agricultural products, he insisted, would only breed a black market. Then he added: "The greatest and most powerful weapon against high prices in this country is the American housewife. Her decisions . . . whether she buys something that is more expensive or less expensive, have a far greater effect on price control than anything we do here...
...years and an American Revolution to bring about such alterations. With contemporary efficiency and such time-saving devices as the Viet Nam War, change now occurs at quintuple speed. The returning P.O.W.s have been away an average of four years; it is long enough to make them a new breed of Van Winkle, blinking at a world that can hardly believe how profoundly it has changed. Nor will it really believe until it sees itself with the returning P.O.W.s' fresh, hungry eyes...
...nerves is not the only thing backgammon buffs have to watch out for. There is also a new breed of hustler lurking: the backgammon shark. Charming and sociable, sharp-minded and able to drink heavily without impairing their skills, they haunt the fashionable resorts and hope to get into a game with a wealthy pigeon like the notorious European buff who has reputedly dropped $500,000 or so in the past three years at the backgammon board. "You can make $1,000 to $1,500 a week by playing these people," says one hustler who tries to remain anonymous...