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...social changes in America that began in the late 1960s, and had become outmoded. Another suggested that it had become so inextricably linked over the years with longtime Editor Norman Cousins that when he stepped down in 1978, SR lost much of its essential identity. But perhaps the fatal factor was, in Weingarten's phrase, "the cost of getting and maintaining a subscriber...
...Burma, tribeswomen encircled their necks with so many heavy metal rings that the vertebrae would separate. In the early 19th century, English fashion in female bodies was ethereal, emaciated; a tubercular fragility was considered attractive. Women subsisted on a diet of vinegar and belladonna to achieve the Pre-Raphaelite "fatal slimness." The crowning, confining glory of Victoriana was the whalebone corset, which gave Actress Lillie Langtry her "ideal" 38-18-38 measurements, and which sometimes displaced internal organs. For some women, that was not enough: in pursuit of the hourglass figure they underwent surgical removal of their lower ribs...
...company seems to have gone wrong mainly in labor relations. Union workers have struck the Dakota City plant four times since it was organized in 1969. A bloody strike that year culminated in the burning of a company executive's home and the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old girl. A union member was later convicted of manslaughter...
...fatal reliance on contradictory economic policies came to a head under Jimmy Carter, whom White rightly chastises for flip-flopping between inconsistent monetary and fiscal approaches as the previous month's initiatives seemed to have failed. White concludes that candidate Reagan's devotion through 1980 to a single supply side program, no matter what its theoretical flaws, won him support from an electorate that craved a sense of executive leadership and foresight. The author also credits Reagan for seizing on the issue of prices long before any of his competitors in either party. He pinpoints the former California governor...
...when I began to consider the subject. . . I soon saw that it had one fatal drawback. I should never be able to . . . come to a conclusion. I should never be able to . . . hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever. All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point?a woman must have money and a room...