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In 1910 William James wrote "The Moral Equivalent of War," arguing that "a permanently peaceful economy cannot be a simple pleasure economy." Now it is called "the era of high-consumption" or "the affluent society," but the lesson's the same. Another way to express it is "a moral escape...
¶ Avance, shuttered by the regime in January, prints 10,000 copies of a 6-in. by 9-in. miniature of a handsome, slick-paper tabloid, which are sneaked into Cuba by volunteer travelers, fishing boats, and roundabout from South America and Europe through unwatched commercial mails. Editor Jorge Zayas...
THE EYES OF THE PROUD, by Mercedes Salisachs (302 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), shows clearly that the umbrous streak in the Spanish character that accounts for the popularity of the corrida has had its effect on the nation's literature. The result is that Spain's fictional heroines...
The townsite near the shore looks very much like the place that Columbus described. Its 1,000-odd houses probably sheltered 15,000 inhabitants, and there were many smaller settlements nearby. Dr. Barker and his Haitian helpers found stone tools, fishing sinkers and a probable ball court, as well as...
Remembered Delinquency. Chippy found his closest acquaintances among his clients: madams, gunmen, racketeers. And though he wore the same old gravy-spotted suit for months at a time and fishing boots even in court, he was pursued by a horde of feminine admirers-most of them show girls, but many...