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...figure in Nixon's current discussions of full-employment budgeting is close to $230 billion. That is what present tax rates probably would bring in during fiscal 1972 at full employment. Nixon's dilemma is whether to hold federal spending to about that level or let outlays go still higher. So far, his aides have been passing word to department heads that spending is to be held to $225 billion. That strategy would allow Nixon to claim, correctly, that a planned deficit in the official budget would not be inflationary. But it would hold out little hope...
...Virtue is not the same as effectiveness," says Hoederer the Pragmatic revolutionary to Hugo his idealistic secretary and future assassin. This dichotomy runs behind the bourgeois display and ultimate vacuity of this production, just as it engenders the futile dilemma in Hugo's life. Hugo is the rich boy turned class traitor and "intellectual anarchist." He seeks the authentic act to validate his totally pure ideology of revolution. Caught in a staggering struggle with his past and his ideal, his identity and his apotheosis, he ends up with "dirty hands." He stamps out the hydra of revisionism, in the person...
Dollard's Dilemma...
...John Dollard's dilemma of declining attendance following his imposition of a liturgical tax [Oct. 19] is the epitome of the clerical cancer existing in the American Catholic church today. American Catholic families have grown weary of financially supporting churches and clergymen who do not in turn support their spiritual needs. Financial boycotting-called a "greenout" in this house -is a protest against preaching to and talking down to instead of communicating with and listening to; it is against the use of dogma and doctrine instead of Christ and scripture; against irrelevant Holy Name and altar guild societies; against...
...certain internal communications which they feel they need for research. The research is intended to verify certain hypotheses having to do with the importance of our extinction. The SDS argues both points with great force. I have the impression, however, that they must still be sorting out the dilemma of whether our departure from the scene should await the outcome of their research or whether they should in this case countenance an exception to an otherwise scholarly approach...