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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Oct. 22, 1984 | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

Economists are also polarized. On one side are Reagan critics, like Walter Heller of the University of Minnesota, who maintain that the budget gap must be sharply narrowed even if that means raising taxes. Says he: ".Unless we tackle the creeping disease of the deficit, it is going to undermine our economic future." At the other extreme are the supply-siders, who maintain that Reagan's tax-cut program will stimulate enough economic growth to shrink the budget shortfall into insignificance. Asserts Supply-Sider Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Beastly Question | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...Heller to Reagan: To tax or not to tax? That is the question. There is only one answer: Tax! Your charge toward a balanced-budget amendment is a political cop-out unless you also fight for a realistic program of budget cuts and tax increases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear Mr. President . . . Advice from the Time Board of Economists | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...jokes are as old as he is; they only come to seem that way when he tells them over and over again. "The devil made me do it" is a corker that had pretty well run its course when Flip Wilson retired it about a decade ago. Heller makes David say it no fewer than three times. Who can forget the noted humorist and slugger Reggie Jackson and his boast "I'm the straw that stirs the drink"? Certainly not Heller, who uses this line three times as well. The spirit of Woody Allen is sometimes summoned forth: "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 3,000-Year-Old Man | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

There might be some saving grace in all of this if it amounted to good, dirty fun. Even this modest goal is infrequently achieved. The rest is a disappointing hodgepodge of repetition and irrelevancy. Heller's attitude toward the past remains steadfastly muddled. He obviously appreciates and exploits ancient grandeur; he also cannot resist the urge to deface every monument he encounters. A certain biblical hero had a remedy for such behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 3,000-Year-Old Man | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

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