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...compassion, he means the axioms of the New Deal and the Vietnam generation: we must give some minimum amount of aid to those who do not compete effectively in our economy; we should avoid full-scale invasions of other nations, especially if we do so in support of corrupt dictators. And by realism blended with compassion, he means just what he implies--in all things moderation. "What we need is less rhetoric and more common sense. Fewer pendulum swings and more steady courses. Less antipathy between the public and private sectors and more cooperation," he writes, and since Tsongas...
Underlying--and overshadowing--these trends is a simple truth: Big time capitalists and conservative ideologues are succeeding in their attempt to paint labor unions as greedy, unecessary, corrupt and bad for the economy. There are the glossy ads of the National Right to Work committee, which is gaining dangerous political clout, especially in the anti-union South. There was the next-to-needless baseball strike, with the slightly revolting sight of vastly overpaid and underworked players demanding more. And now there is the most popular president in recent memory taking to nationwide t.v. to infer that striking air traffic controllers...
Much of the evening is monstrously funny, but there is an odor of acrid black comedy to it, possibly because Foreman views Don Juan as "a radical with no place to go" in a corrupt society. Molière's Don Juan is radical only in his supreme egoism. He is a law unto himself, a one-man Fifth Estate. He is as cool a rationalist as he is hot a hedonist...
...Reagan Administration plans to shift enforcement efforts from the smaller dealers to the major traffickers. Spearheading the drive is Francis ("Bud") Mullen, former FBI executive assistant director, who this month was put in charge of the DEA. He hopes to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute, the FBI'S favorite tool against organized crime, to confiscate drug-trade profits. One way of locating these gains is through stricter enforcement of the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act, which requires banks to disclose deposits that exceed...
...elegant puzzles of the Conan Doyle school and the dumb gore and violence of the pulp magazines. Typical Hammett detectives, like the Continental op and Sam Spade, got their hands dirty but kept their minds alert. They often found that those who had hired them were criminal or corrupt; they prowled, lonely paladins of justice, through stark landscapes of betrayal and greed. Hammett's stories paid the rent. His novels, especially The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Glass Key (1931), brought him an international reputation...