Word: gornick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROMANCE OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM by Vivian Gornick; Basic Books; 265 pages...
...Vivian Gornick takes a considerably more dramatic-indeed romantic-view of what she calls the "romance" of American Communism: "Marxism was for those who became Communists what Helen was for Paris. Once encountered, in the compelling persona of the Communist Party, the ideology set in motion the most intense longings." These, writes Gornick, became a consuming passion, "that was in its very essence both compellingly humanizing and then compellingly dehumanizing...
Doubled Penalty. Armed with computers, state officials are doing what they can to curb fraud. Washington is helping by increasing funds for probes of suspected frauds, though most state compensation offices are woefully short of investigators. Mary Ellen Gornick heads an auditing team in Illinois to cut down on abuses. Says she: "We were so preoccupied with strengthening the system so legitimate claims would get paid. Only recently have we been able to focus on some of the abuses...