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...that women don't receive equal respect. Pornography is a double insult; it denigrates women and has fun doing it. But turning to the law to endorse a stiff-necked Victorian worship of womanhood's worth is hardly an answer. It implies that there is a moral right to extract respect from the disrespectful. A widespread perception of feminine inferiority infringes on the real equality of the sexes, but this perception must be changed by conversion, not coercion...
...arguments against trade unions are long and familiar; every economics textbook since Samuelson's has insisted that unions restrict the labor supply and extract from management higher wages for a blue collar elite, at the expense of jobs for thousands of others. And ever since organized labor became an integral part of the American economy, experts have called unions inefficient and unproductive because they give too many jobs to unions members who perform superfluous functions. Laymen, too, dislike unions simply for the corruption they feel many unions leaders display...
Blacks know that if Jackson goes to the Democratic Convention with enough delegates, he can extract important concessions from the party. Many blacks do not trust white Democrats, no matter how liberal their voting records, to push their interests. Indeed, with the party preoccupied with cutting the federal deficit, issues of vital importance to blacks-affirmative action, teen-age unemployment, the black underclass-are hardly discussed by white candidates. Says Max Palevsky, a liberal activist in Los Angeles: "The Democrats have lost their way and become a not too articulate reflection of the Republicans. Instead of sweeping these issues under...
...would almost certainly follow the leader, although some first-class teams, like East Germany's, would be dismayed at the prospect of forfeiting their virtually assured bushel of medals. For the moment, the Administration believes the Soviets are merely exploiting the situation for propaganda purposes, possibly hoping to extract some concessions from Olympic officials in Los Angeles. The U.S. argues that it has lifted, for the period of the Games, an existing ban on Soviet airliners carrying passengers into the country and has granted permission for a Soviet ship to be used as a floating hotel. Administration officials maintain...
Such portentous clues will no doubt play very well in classrooms and seminars. Teachers can I extract from the novel a long list of I topics for discussion. Scholarly journals should prepare for a host of submitted articles bearing titles punctuated with the obligatory colon ("Art I vs. Life: The Self-Loathing Narrative ill of Wilfred Barclay"). All this freewheeling interpretation in depth may obscure the fact that The Paper Men implies significance through lapses rather than design. The autobiographical touches suggest that Golding wished to settle a few scores with critics and also to satirize the "paper...