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Robert Brown believes juvenile halls and training schools only make adult criminals. "There's nobody to love the kids and no one to provide any sort of normal life." Brown should know. His earliest recollection is of being found half-starved in a room at the age of two. He then lived in five foster homes, two orphanages and a reformatory before he turned...
Died. Alvin H. Hansen, 87, economist who pioneered the acceptance of Keynesian theory in the U.S.; in Alexandria, Va. South Dakota-born Hansen was the earliest important American advocate of the then-radical argument set forth by British Economist John Maynard Keynes in his 1936 work, General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: that government should take an active role in manipulating the economy through tax and spending policy to maintain high employment, even at the cost of mounting debt and added inflation. As a Roosevelt brain-truster during the New Deal, and as a consultant to various Washington agencies...
Gulf officials in the U.S. said that they would supply names at "the earliest possible moment." (Dorsey remarked that "people just don't write memos about things like that.") Arguing for Dorado's release Gulf contended that he had "no involvement whatsoever" in the payoffs. Last week, however, a Bolivian judge ruled that there were "indications "of guilt" against him. Dorado asserted that he was only a low-level employee responsible for transport, administration and public relations. The government's real target was Dorsey, who said: "They have no power to extradite me and I have...
...induce a plot line into a novel which has no story. West's book is less a novel than a series of sketches of the seamier side of life in Hollywood which he combines into a collage of circus-like characters, aggressively pursuing empty dreams, turning vicious at the earliest opportunity to express their frustration and disillusionment...
...forge of his own mind. Hot in the smithy of Irish poetry, he began a new mode heavily influenced by modernist poets. His elongated narrative lines turned to the crisp, dry style of poets like Auden--nouns are used as verbs, sentences are elipsed and inverted. In the very earliest of these poems, Clarke subtly reveals a kind of tormented agnosticism, as in this poem about the crucifixion of Christ: An open mind disturbs the soul, And in disdain I turn my back Upon the sun that makes a show Of half the world, yet still deny The pain that...