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...lunch and for most weekday dinners, is the best deal the restaurant offers. For under $2 you can concoct your own salad from a wide assortment of garden greens, vegetables and dressings. You'll have fun competing against others in the contest of seeing how much you can heap onto one salad plate...
This myth is repeatedly trashed by cold economic facts, only to be dutifully retrieved from the garbage heap by the media and put back into circulation. While newspapers report compassionately (and rightly so) on the job-retraining of male engineers laid off in the Route 128 recession or of returning Viet vets, they find no end of amusement in, say, the efforts of a young Worcester woman to train herself as an auto mechanic. More recently, there has been a growing recognition that many middle class women turn to work to relieve the psychic poverty of their lives. But America...
...nearly 40 years, in journalism, lectures, and radio and TV appearances, Muggeridge has been decrying everything that he finds fraudulent or ridiculous-i.e., virtually everything. Ours is a vulgar and destructive age, he has instructed us. Our arts and literature are a heap of rubble. Our inner Lives are sown with salt. Even now that Muggeridge has converted to an idiosyncratic Christianity (as described in his 1969 Jesus Rediscovered), his cup of wormwood runneth over...
...Alaska must reluctantly claim the title as "the world's tallest rubbish heap." Our Mount McKinley has nearly 6,000 ft. more garbage and litter than Mount Whitney. Climbers report having to pick their way through banana peels, cans, and food wrappers to reach the top of North America...
...Kilpatrick and Joseph Alsop in the antipress chorus on the Kissinger incident. Alsop gloomed that the treatment of Kissinger?a product of the "enormous, Watergate-induced self-importance of the American press"?might further decrease the value of the dollar and put U.S. foreign policy "on the dung heap of disorder." Well, hardly. But the press?especially Washington newsmen?had indeed given the unfortunate impression of ganging up on the only hero in town...