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...TWENTIES by EDMUND WILSON 557 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Posterity's revenge on writers who overshadow it is to turn them into monuments. In the case of Edmund Wilson, the process was well under way two years ago when he died at 77-already muffled in a banner bearing the legend "Distinguished Man of Letters." But here, in The Twenties, Wilson's ghost puts in a timely appearance that should forestall too much veneration-breaking out the gin, putting a record on the Victrola and eagerly looking over every pretty flapper in the room...
Among the more inspired bits of rhetoric was Anthropologist Edmund Leach's charge that anti-Marketeers were misty-minded isolationists who showed "the same degree of contact with rational probability as a New Guinea cargo cult." On the other side, angry leftist Playwright John Osborne denounced the EEC as "the last desperate dream of dull, dim tradesmen without vision, imagination or self-respect, feeling for life or history...
...Executive Branch. The bureaucrats in the Executive Branch, she said, tend to consider Congress "a bunch of dopes" who cannot comprehend budget matters, while Congress figures that the administrators "will just mess it up" if kept informed about what the Legislative Branch wants to do to the budget. Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, pointedly wondered how many Congressmen voted for the budget limitation-they ruled that the deficit for fiscal 1976 should not exceed $68.8 billion-while reserving the right to vote for their own pet programs...
When Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal pushed through the nation's labor legislation in the '30s, one group of workers remained conspicuously unprotected: the farm workers. Last week California's Governor Edmund Brown Jr. won initial legislative approval for a bill that would finally give farm workers in one of the nation's richest agricultural states the protective legal umbrella they have long sought...