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...work of American fiction to focus on industrialization and its human cost. Davis's book work was also concerned with "ifs:" she tried to see her subject's lives as they might been not as they were. Tillie Olsen first read Life in the Iron Mills when she was fifteen after buying it "for ten cents in an Omaha junkshop." But the work published anonymously, and not until 1958, thirty years later, did she discover the author's identity. Having rescued Rebecca Harding Davis's voice from the permanent silence of a slow, crumbling junkshop death alone makes Silences...
...Fifteen days may or may not be enough time to resolve the tangled issues. Desperately trying to control inflation, the Carter Administration cannot afford to enlarge the average 6.5%-a-year pay boost; doing so would make it that much harder to restrain subsequent labor demands. Beyond that, the Postal Service, which is running a $700 million annual deficit, is threatened by growing competition from private carriers. If it has to raise the price of stamps, it will lose still more customers. Noted a participant in the talks: "The Postal Service did not need any importuning from the White House...
...black. And, taking a cue from the Fairy Queen's remark about being able to "swing upon a cobweb," he opened the show by dropping in a huge cobweb. This denial of a broad spectrum only serves to heighten the impact of the ensuing magnificent procession of Peers, fifteen strong, resplendently garbed and sporting rich velvet capes of different colors. The music itself not only parodies marches by Bellini, Meyerbeer, Wagner and Verdi but is also better than the pieces it satirizes. And the chorus of lords makes a full, lusty sound -- without the awful electronic amplification that mars most...
...While corporations still somewhat squeamishly call their lobbyists "Government affairs specialists" or "Washington representatives," the fact that the heads of multi-billion-dollar firms are now willing to plead their causes personally shows their awareness that Government is not going to retreat from its intrusion into their corporate lives. "Fifteen years ago, the businessman was told that politics is dirty, you shouldn't get involved," observes Albert Abrahams, chief lobbyist for the influential National Association of Realtors. "Now they know if you want to have...
...Fifteen days later, Levitt reappeared to tell a totally different story. He said that during all that time he had been imprisoned against his will at three different locations. His mysterious captors not only wanted to break up his marriage, he said, but to talk him out of his new-found religion. He had been the victim of a bizarre and forceful "deprogramming" technique, he claimed. Levitt was no convert to a weird new cult, however, but a Jew who had lately converted to Christianity and wanted to marry a Gentile...