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...five in the morning, a newsroom of rubble, an endless metronome of wire-machine clattering to no one, a sea of crumpled paper and broken typewriters, a resting place for tradition that stares down from the peeling yellowed walls, womb of a thousand dreams and careers and distortions and corrections and insights, a repository for the mediocre and the brilliant and the misfired and the passing-through and the incorrectly pasted up, O Crimson, you are a line on a resume and a way of life...
Reagan believes profoundly that a swollen Government has now become the destroyer of prosperity, fanning inflation through endless deficits and strangling economic growth through excessive taxes. So, from now on, Government must choose to slim itself down. It must spend less, tax less, regulate less, trim rather than expand social programs and turn over responsibility for many of them to states and cities. Above all, it must stop trying to guide the economy and trust the energies of private workers and businessmen to pull the nation out of the stagflation swamp...
Radio and television messages to the boys at the front. Small-town burials of flag-draped coffins. Posthumous awards for valor. These are daily reminders of South Africa 's seemingly endless, distant bush war, which has droned on for 14 years. The battleground is Namibia (South West Africa), which South Africa has controlled since 1920. A flurry of hope for a negotiated cease-fire was shattered in Geneva last month when a United Nations conference on Namibia's future broke down. Reason: South Africa refused to risk an independent government led by the Marxist-oriented South West Africa...
...legend lives on--a self-conscious parody of itself. Confederate flags grace the rear windows of countless Le Sabres (of the Buick variety), and the endless parade of hypesters, from Ted Turner to the late Colonel Sanders, parade themselves in front of a beguiled public as something unique--something Southern. Of course, one would be hard pressed, once one looked beneath the drawl, to find anything unique at all. The South is as distressingly prime-time American as any other section of the country, perhaps even more so. We would like the South to be different; to be a hopeless...
Strenio argues his handful of strong points mainly by repetition, piling up examples and appending endless strings of quotations--mostly the testimony of notables (e.g. Walter Lippmann) who share the author's view. Similar "arguments" characterize his treatment of the complex question of cultural bias. He presents examples galore of confusing questions; yet one of them, closer inspection reveals, Strenio wrote himself as an illustration, and for several others he neglected to find out the test's accepted answers. The reader can not but wonder how complete the author's understanding can be of tests that he never even...