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...YORKER, he is a meatball amidst the linguinous prose of Pauline Kael, et al, and in book form his essays stand up well. They are not meant to be read all together at one sitting, but to be savored, like stuffed peppers in chili sauce. If one dare bother to complain, Allen may not be clever enough. His stories are a form of verbal slapstick; he is desperately self-conscious when he puns...
...THAT PRO-KLAN or anti-Klan?" this enormous figure in a white robe and hood demanded, and what could the poor guy say? After all, most people wouldn't read the book he was passing out--the John Birch classic "None Dare Call It Conspiracy"--but it presumably has little to say on the subject of the Invisible Empire. "Read it--see for yourself," he ventured, his shoulders quivering under his polyester suit. Squinting through embroidered eyeholes, the Klansman leafed through the book, which offers conclusive proof that the Marxists who celebrate their religion on Saturday are responsible for virtually...
During their long, turbulent history, the people of Herat have been conquered by the likes of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane-but it has always been over their dead bodies. Nowadays neither the Soviets nor the Afghan army dare go into the center of the city. The mujahidin control the old quarter, but sectarian fighting has made Herat unsafe for anyone. Understandably, travelers have scratched it from their itineraries. The owner of a handicraft shop, one of the few stores still open, said we were his first customers in a month. "What kind of life is it when you come...
...increasingly unpopular with many Americans. But on this night this audience, out of conviction or nostalgia, or a little of both, cheered his plea for national health insurance, environmental protection and his $12 billion federal jobs program ("We cannot solve problems by throwing money at them, but we dare not throw out our national problems onto a scrap heap of inattention and indifference...
...values that will never wear out. Programs may sometimes become obsolete, but the ideal of fairness always endures. Circumstances may change, but the work of compassion must continue. It is surely correct that we cannot solve problems by throwing money at them; but it is also correct that we dare not throw national problems onto a scrap heap of inattention and indifference. The poor may be out of political fashion, but they are not without human needs. The middle class may be angry, but they have not lost the dream that all Americans can advance together...