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Nearly 30 years ago, an ex-G.I. from The Bronx journeyed to Copenhagen to become blond Christine Jorgensen. Ever since, sex-change operations have been performed routinely as a cure for serious sexual identity problems. Males were treated with hormones that encouraged loss of facial hair and growth of breasts; subsequent surgery transformed the scrotum and penis into a functioning vagina. In females, hormones were given to develop masculine characteristics, followed by the implantation of an artificial phallus...
After that bitter time in the Soviet, any effort to cure mankind's ailments was written off by Muggeridge as "liberalism," and thus beneath contempt. Education, he finds, "is a stupendous fraud perpetrated by the liberal mind on a bemused public, and calculated, not just not to reduce juvenile delinquency, but positively to increase it, being itself a source of this very thing." As for modern art: "A Picasso, after a lifetime's practice arrives at the style of the cave drawings in the Pyrenees." Progress, for Muggeridge, is arrogant optimism, a shaking of man's tiny...
...imagined"). The bachelor Republican, who was graduated from Michigan State University and attended Harvard Divinity School, is known in his southern Michigan district for opposing excessive regulation of the auto industry. Last year he helped defeat Carter's complex hospital cost-containment bill because he felt it was "a cure worse than the disease." Stockman's main goal is to reduce the role of the Government in society and to chip away at "the social pork barrel?the tremendous pressure of parochial, narrowly defined interests...
...group of "new conservatives" who are arguing that the Government should meddle less in the economy. Feldstein heads the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, a private organization financed by grants from foundations and corporations, highly respected in the profession for its study of economic cycles. The cure for what ails the American economy, argues Feldstein, is more capital investment, helped by tax incentives. He believes the Government should lower Social Security taxes to encourage private savings and make unemployment benefits taxable to remove incentives...
...certain age," Truman said, "it's hopeless to think people are going to change much." Jimmy Carter may be the one to prove Harry wrong, but the evidence at this moment is that Presidents who try to be what they are not create more chaos than they cure...