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...Prevention of Violence. Much of it has been said before and it is hardly a model of writing, editing or even proofreading (typographical errors extend to the title page). Yet the paperback, which weighs nearly two pounds, should interest both the critics and the criticized -though it will likely delight neither...
...carried monetary restraint so far as to create the danger of recession. Says Economist Henry Kaufman of the Manhattan bond house of Salomon Brothers & Hutzler: "Success in 1970 is virtually a necessity for the survival of the Federal Reserve System." Next week, to Patman's undisguised delight, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin will reach the legal limit for time on the job and will retire. Washington will miss the frequent confrontations between Martin and Patman at hearings of the banking committee; on one occasion, Patman condemned Bill Martin as "the most disastrous influence in American history." Patman...
Significantly, The Band's music is quiet. They once played harddriving, ear-numbing rock. Now they deal in intricate, syncopated modal sound that, unlike most rock but like fine jazz, demands close attention and rewards it with a special exhilarating delight. When The Band plays, it is not for a trip but a musical treat. Though their newest LP, The Band, is high on Billboard's "Top LP" chart and they have sold close to a million records, this does not mean that The Band will be everybody's cup of tea. But for those who take to them?musicians...
Schadenfreude has always been one of humanity's least attractive-but most lucratively exploitable-qualities. Lately, though, in the field of popular music, delight in other people's anguish has reached new levels of callousness-and depressing commercial success...
...army ants. He learned that the Fuegians ate their women in a hard winter (instead of their dogs, which could catch otter). Like a great artist, he was half child, half sage. Nothing, from tiny bugs to the giant fossilized Megatherium, was too small or great to stir his delight. He saw not only the kinship of beasts with man but the kinship of man with the beasts...