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...programs sounded pretty much like a philosophy of total altruism and good citizenship--a kind of tutoring service for policymakers and a chance for freshmen midwestern senators and young eastern seaboard congressmen to dig into off-shore drilling and farm price support case studies for a small admission...
...later comers to America -Irish, Germans, Poles, Italians, Czechs, Jews, Negroes and many others-were willy-nilly committed to a common search in a strange land. How to make a riving and a new life? How to clear the wilderness and get crops to grow? How to lay roads, dig canals and build cities? How to construct and organize factories, to find customers, and to begin to trade profitably with the rest of the world? Out of this variegated common search came a nation...
...while all the time a real masterpiece was playing in Danvers. And I would have missed it, too, if it hadn't been for the way the Liberty Tree Mall beckoned out of the mist. As it was, I loved The Towering Inferno and didn't have to dig very deep into my satchel of critical responses to discover why. I was on the edge of my seat, breathless with delight. Yet when I walked out of the theater I was somewhat shamefaced about how unreservedly I'd responded to the film--how easily I'd been manipulated...
...construction. But should we remove them? Even the current increase has forced elderly people on fixed incomes and families without employment to switch to diets of starch and pet food in order to pay their rents, or to move out of their homes-and hometown. We have to dig deeper, beneath the tug-of-war between protected profits and decent living standards if, to use Pillsbury's phrase, "the reality of the issue is to shine through...
...UMWA and got himself, his wife and his daughter murdered in their beds for it. And where things haven't changed since a long time ago when coal companies from Pittsburgh and New York and Philadelphia came down to buy up land for fifty cents an acre, dig coal mines, and take away the coal and practically all the money the coal was worth. Dan Sizemore was out of a job a month after this book about him was published (the company cited "economic conditions") and cannot get another because of his black lung. (He can go on compensation--since...