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...feel that their existence is a cheat: "To be told so little to such an end-and still-finally-to be denied an explanation." Here and elsewhere, Stoppard comes perilously close to singing the self-pity blues, or life-is-a-dirty-trick. All men and women submit to fate, but they are not all Rosencrantzes and Guildensterns...
...leash law for dogs?"), frivolous ("Do you like long hair on boys?") or merely vague ("Have we failed our founding fathers?"). In Boston, 64% of WHDH's callers said that they believed that flying saucers originated in outer space; in Tampa, Fla., 67% confessed to WFLA that they cheat on their income tax. When asked if they would vote for Lyndon Johnson in 1968, response was a resounding no from 63% of the callers in Houston, 77% in Pittsburgh and 82% in Minneapolis. Among the Republican candidates, Reagan ranked the highest and Romney the lowest in New Orleans...
...mercifully there is one, DJ. loves-hates his rich father, a victim of all alleged Texas hang-ups, notably insecure masculinity. Mailer plunks father, son and a couple of unholy Texas ghosts in Alaska's Brooks Mountain Range on a safari in search of manhood. Naturally, they cheat: in orgiastically killing a wolf, numerous caribou and three grizzlies, the hunters unsportingly use a helicopter instead of their feet. Though he hardly clarifies his intention, Mailer apparently figures that he has thus allegorized Vietnam as a case of Texas-style Americans neurotically in love with war. The book ends with...
...Mitchell Sviridoff, 48, head of New York City's Human Resources Administration, is attempting to bring all of the city's "human" programs together in one coherent plan. On the theory that welfare recipients will cheat no more than ordinary taxpayers, 300 welfare families have been allowed to receive money on their own signed certificates of need, without the extensive and costly bureaucratic checks normally required. When welfare recipients go to work, many cities dock their welfare payments by the amount of their earnings, thus destroying the incentive to work. New York plans to allow welfare recipients...
...word above that of Michael O'Hare, one of the aides who stole Dodd's records. O'Hare had testified that Dodd ordered him to collect travel money from both the Senate and private organizations. Last week Dodd contended that if he had wanted to cheat in this manner, he could have done so on a grand scale rather than take merely $1,700 over five years. It was all O'Hare's fault for sloppy bookkeeping, Dodd argued, calling him "a liar and a forger and a thief." Moreover, Dodd declared, if the Senate...