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Foreman laughs off the criticism and is happy that she enjoys the confidence of Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland as well as of her friend Joan Claybrook. On Foreman's 40th birthday Claybrook gave her a gift: a spiky cactus plant. It was festooned like a Christmas tree, with candy, chewing gum and junk food that Foreman had just proposed banning from sale during school lunch hours. Today only a few of the trimmings remain on the tree. The rest, reports Foreman, have been eaten by her sugar-loving staff...
...necessary staying power in the running battle with immortal corporations. We're not talking here about the ideological zealots--the Sparts and Trots and PLPers and ilk, who spend their time bickering and backstabbing over the various Internationals or how best to bring on the Revolution. Rather, the Cactus Leftists have involved themselves in presenting concrete alternatives to present policies. Their pragmatism, unfortunately, has often landed them in that sprawling massage parlor known as the Democratic Party: Instead of pushing radical alternatives, leftists end up dealing the tired liberal band-aids. (Flesh-colored, the ads say--make that Caucasian-colored...
SOME OF THE snarpest prickles from the Cactus Leftists have come from the Exploratory Project on Economic Alternatives, a D.C.-based, foundation-sponsored research operation. EPEA is headed by Gar Alperovitz, a highly-respected leftist economist who was even mentioned for Jimmy Carter's Council of Economic Advisers. Alperovitz's response to the wishful-thinkers was, "Thanks but no thanks...
THESE ANALYSES and proposals by Alperovitz and other Cactus Leftists are eminently reasonable and practical; yet, because they would represent fundamental change in the status quo, the flight to institute them will be Sisyphean...
...tree surrounded by soft green turf. In the topiary garden, a hippo, giraffe, elephant and camel-sculpted in glossy English ivy-recall the playful conceits of Pliny's Rome. The American Desert House is studded with 100 kinds of desert plants, including a 20-ft. saguaro cactus. Children may prowl the Greenmuse, a special section with a "please touch" policy to give city kids an acquaintance with the look and feel of real corn and tomato plants. Beneath the conservatory, in the Green-school, they will also be able to study plants and seeds with microscopes...