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...awkwardly phrased query can quickly lead to information overload, generating hundreds of responses. At the same time, computers can be too efficient, eliminating what is called the serendipity factor. "The real joy of scholarly research is discovering something valuable in the process of looking for something else," says Arnold Compton, a retired schoolteacher from Arlington, Va. "You can't do that with a computer. Or at least I haven't figured...
Last week Mondale doggedly chased after Reagan from Orange County in California to an American Legion convention in Salt Lake City to a B'nai B'rith meeting in Washington. He poked and prodded, looking for soft spots. To a group of grocery workers in Compton, Calif., he portrayed Reagan as the friend of the rich, and tried hard to show his own indignation. "I'm mad. I'm angry. I'm damn mad," he insisted, looking pained. But speaking in Cupertino, Calif., the day before, Reagan had simply scoffed at "that pack of pessimists...
Pulling out charts and graphs at the Compton, Calif., gathering, Mondale hammered home on the "fairness issue, charging that the Administration's tax cuts are "tilted toward Mr. Reagan's rich friends." Using figures provided by the Washington-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and congressional sources, he showed that Reagan actually raised taxes 22% for those earning less than $10,000 a year, while families making between $20,000 and $30,000 "stayed even." By contrast, those earning between $100,000 and $200,000 got an 8% tax cut, worth $8,916 a year. Mondale promises...
...English. One thinks immediately of Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin or half a dozen others. And among them, prominently, one thinks of Malcolm Morley. Morley is 52. His first retrospective-curated by Nicholas Serota, director of London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, and handsomely introduced by Art Historian Michael Compton-has spent the past year touring from Basel to London to Chicago; it opened this month at its final stop, New York City's Brooklyn Museum. With its 52 paintings, the show spans less than 20 years, from 1965 to 1982. It is a highly edited affair that says nothing...
While Andropov load tried to break the cycle of Compton that has characterized struggle lapse, said Pipes, formerly the chief adviser on Soviet affairs on President Reagan's National Security Council...