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...bloody riots. Mobs of Protestants marched through the Catholic ghettos of Londonderry and Belfast, burning and beating, while the Royal Ulster Constabulary and dreaded Protestant "B special" police auxiliary forces either participated or looked the other way. The riots and their aftermath brought Firebrand Reformer Bernadette Devlin to the fore as an eloquent spokesman for Catholic rights. The troubles also brought to Ulster brigades of British troops, who were at first welcomed as protectors by Catholics offering tea and sympathy...
There is an intellectual Darwinism among us that believes if only all that can be said or thought is permitted, right thinking will out and the best will come to the fore, But history has shown that there is an economics of ideas as surely as there is an economics of goods. And the free market place of ideas is no more self-regulating, no more inevitably just, than the laissez-faire capitalism which produced...
...harassed and frightened a young Eiskeller boy whenever he bicycled out to meet his school bus that he finally quit going to school. The British army solved the problem by escorting him back and forth along the road every day with an armed Land Rover and a weapons carrier fore and aft of his bicycle...
Nevertheless, as forerunners-or fore-sitters-of the TV generation, Adler and Margolies are apologists for what they admit are television's "give-them-what-they-want aesthetics." They believe it is TV that makes things real, which may seem like a rather naive electronic version of Bishop Berkeley's metaphysics (a tree must be perceived if it is to exist). "If there is a garbage strike and your own neighborhood is unaffected, there is no garbage strike unless you see it on TV," says Adler. "If Abbie Hoffman never set foot on TV, there would...
Most Americans must work nearly seven years for the same employer be fore they can claim as much as three weeks' vacation. All French workers, from office boys to factory foremen, are given four weeks' vacation starting with their first year on the job. Many Frenchmen take holidays of up to seven weeks. Rather than try to stagger vacations and cut down production, most French plants let their employees off in August and close for the month. In Sweden, workers are still better off; every employee in the country is guaranteed a month's vacation...