Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thank you for Marshall Loeb's cogent Essay on inflation [April 10]. I'm more than willing to make the sacrifices and cast the votes to give Loeb's proposals a chance...
...astounded that your Essay can address the question of battling inflation without mentioning our enormous military budget. TIME is daydreaming to expect any significant progress in combatting inflation without important cuts in that swiller of federal money...
...most effective way to deal with the problem. Inflation, the result of too much money relative to the amount of goods produced, can be curtailed by a reduction in the rate of growth of the money supply. Without reduced money growth, none of the ten proposals in your Essay would have any effect on the basic rate of inflation. It is the only meaningful way of reducing inflation consistent with the goals of adequate economic growth and full employment...
...witty commentary in the Essay in itself proved, to my relief, that good humor in this country is not extinct. And I laughed. In fact, I haven't laughed so heartily since once in 1958, somewhere, I got a bad review...
...Judge Artie Henderson sends teen-agers caught purse snatching from old ladies to work in convalescent homes. Graffiti artists in New York City have been ordered to swap their paint sprayers for cleaning brushes. A professor arrested in a protest demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer was made to raise a pig and a calf for his victim. One judge is even said to have sentenced a naked Frisbee player to plant fig trees in a park...