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Despite their relative flexibility, the panelists produced the kind of clear, cur rent standards that were missing from the surprisingly permissive Webster's Third New International Dictionary of 1961. William Morris, editor of the American Heritage dictionary, feels that such standards are essential if readers are to have "any indication of the social levels of words." But Morris rejects suggestions that the new dictionary is an "American Fowler." Despite their prescriptive brilliance, he says, the Fowler Brothers (Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 1926) could not possibly reflect a true cross section of the literate community of their time...
...lynch-mob mentality, there is no intrinsic reason why blacks and whites should not cooperate in escort ser vices, for instance, or in demanding both more policemen and more humane police procedures. Such cooperative ventures are still far too rare to set a pattern; if anything, the cur rent trend indicates a discouraging deterioration. But the scattered alliances formed thus far suggest exciting possibilities - and a clear challenge for unions, corporations and politicians at every level to work toward an atmosphere of tolerance based upon rational self-interest...
...even in a hurry to nominate a new Chief Justice, although he has frequently criticized the Supreme Court's decisions on police practices and criminal law. Earl Warren's resignation, originally submitted to Johnson last June, now will not take effect until the end of the cur rent court term, probably in six months. Thus the work of the court will not be disrupted...
Barnett Newman created a "Lace Cur tain for Mayor Daley" made of the barbed wire used for police barricades in August and spattered with red paint. Robert Motherwell decided to send two already completed abstract expressionist canvases. "The significance is to participate," he said. "This show represents the politics of feeling, not the politics of ideology." Sculptor Robert Morris settled for a telegram. His suggestion: redo the Chicago fire...
According to Council Vice Chairman Ralph Lazarus, president of Federated Department Stores, the economists believe that to tame inflation from its cur rent 4½% annual rate to a manageable 2%, a new Administration may have to "extend and intensify" its braking pressure. For how long? Possibly for one or two years, during which profits would suffer and unemployment would rise from its current 15-year low of 3½% to 4½% or even 5½%. That price, said Lazarus, might be "neither politically wise nor socially acceptable...