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Gornick's insistent sentimentality is not the book's only flaw. It is, after all, difficult to weave numerous interviews together in a readable fashion. One wishes, nonetheless, that Gornick devised transitions more imaginative than bulletins announcing with which ex-Communist she drank coffee and with whom she guzzled Scotch. Descriptions of living room decor also fail to enhance the reader's understanding of American Communism's nature, romantic or otherwise. And, in most instances, her discourses on her subjects' family histories are of interest only to an eager parlor Freudian...
Despite this flaw, The Vast Majority remains a work that should open people's hearts and minds to Third World poverty. In part, Harrington has written the book because of his conviction that Americans are unaware of the U.S.'s central role in a system "which massively reproduces the injustices of a world partitioned among the fat and the starving." He has a Jimmy Carter-esque faith that "we are a decent and charitable people," that only a "cruel innocence" prevents us from seeing clearly, and trying to correct, global poverty. Harrington's book removes the excuse...
...Pistol-Packing Postman. Beaman Hysmith, a mail carrier, shot a co-worker in the chest. While he was serving his sentence, the Postal Service dismissed him. Hysmith appealed his dismissal and won reinstatement because of a procedural flaw: the same person who proposed Hysmith's ouster had reviewed the case. The Post Office had to shell out approximately $5,000 in back pay for the time Hysmith was out of work pending his appeal, but with proper paper work it finally axed him permanently...
...obvious flaw in the proposed settlement is that it is impossible to determine whether the black majority will accept the agreement, because Smith's government has never permitted free elections or any other realistic expression of black opinion. United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young has aptly criticized the settlement, noting that a settlement without the Popular Front will probably set black against black, eventually outweighing any possible benefits. Furthermore, the Smith plan does not meet the standards of the Anglo-American proposal hammered out last year...
...ceiling is probably disintegrating because of a flaw in the original 50-year-old plaster, said Frank A. Marciano, B&G superintendent for the Yard area...