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...federal funding for the project is now being phased out. LEAA officials blame budget cutbacks, noting, however, that successful experiments should be taken over by state and local officials. Most communities are struggling to do just that. Washington, D.C., has been running its version of the program, Operation Doorstop, without LEAA funds for 17 months. When Norfolk's LEAA grant runs out in October, prosecutors plan to work overtime to keep the program alive. New York, New Orleans and Boston are seeking state aid to continue. "Anybody who knows anything about crime in this society knows that what criminals...
...York's master builder Robert Moses really be worth reading about in a tome far longer than War and Peace? The astonishing answer, in an age when doorstop books have become a plague, is yes-emphatically...
...this potential doorstop winning such acclaim? Are readers in 1974 really that willing to plow through 25 pages of hearsay evidence on Macaulay's eloquence as a parliamentary orator from 1832 to 1834? Or, for that matter, the more than 50 pages that Clive uses to summarize Macaulay's revision of the Indian penal code? And then, after half a thousand pages, Macaulay's masterpiece plus 20 years of his life still lie ahead-for this is only the first volume from an academic biographer who knows everything and tells all, not ungracefully but sometimes twice...
...Australian who lives in London, Christina Stead is known in the U.S. chiefly for another doorstop novel called The Man Who Loved Children. Both books were originally published shortly before World War II and forgotten for 30 years. They are more alike than may at first appear. The Man Who Loved Children is an obsessive, virulent chronicle of domestic agony-the kind of endless, patiently malevolent novel Eugene O'Neill might have written...
...Taxes. In 1900 a British engineer assayed a Nauru rock being used as a doorstop in his Sydney office, discovered that the island was richly overlaid with phosphate. With Britain, Australia and New Zealand extracting the deposits, royalties have showered down on the Nauruans to the tune of half a million dollars a year. Today the dark-skinned natives pay no taxes but enjoy schools, hospitals, running water, electric lights and movies...