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Economics is an uncomplicated matter, Reagan assures his listeners. Just end deficit spending. "This is the single cause of inflation, and inflation is the cause of recession." (He revealed this insight four years ago in Kennet High School in Conway, N.H., before a rapt audience...
...believes. "You have to establish a person who can be trusted, who is reasonable, who is honest." Her columns touch readers in a very personal way, like a reassuring squeeze of the hand, and at least 100 write her letters every week. Says Mary Jo Meade of Conway, Ark., editor of the Log Cabin Democrat's Weekender magazine: "She usually hits to the core of things, and folks just eat it alive. They say, 'All right...
...worker's almost total indifference to this verified illegality is a fascinating phenomenon, one rarely analysed in terms of labor injustices and ripe Conway's analysis falls short, leaving the reader with simply a sense of frustration. Stevens employees are torn between contradicting impulses of self-interest and blind sentalmentalism, their vision of a happy past and a strong faith that the future will be better. Stevens workers are bewildered, complacent, and left to die slowly with brown lung disease and blank disillusionment, but Conway doesn...
...Conway calls her narrative "the relentless witnessing of ravages lives," but the impact of the narrative is has far less impact than the description implies. Trite and ultimately tiresome, the structure of the book prevents Conway from articulating the problems within the unionization movement itself. By randomly panning workers' sentiments, Conway skirts a critical analysis of the factors in the workers' minds and society that obstruct their unionization attempts...
...town textile mill, organizing picnics, handing out holiday bonuses, paternally providing jobs, money and security. Ironically, their gasping and wheezing testimonies of Stevens unjustices are dominated by reflections of their mill town's golden past. The reader is frustrated by their reluctance to act, almost as much as by Conway's failure to articulate the feelings that have keep Stevens workers from shaping a better life...