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Times have changed, and so have many liberals. While championing some of the old, established causes to the hilt, Roche, a respected constitutional historian at Brandeis, belongs to a new breed of "tough-minded" liberals who try to avoid inflexible positions and judge the issues on their merits. Naturally, this does not sit well with ideological types, who, according to Roche, "seem to be preserved, like flies in amber, in the militant postures of their youth." In this collection of essays Roche has written, in effect, a brilliant riposte to the dogmatic left...
...North Sea sauce. And the pride of Danes stems from more than possession of Tuborg and Carlsberg beer, or of Europe's oldest royal house. "The Danes are superb salesmen of themselves," sniffs a Swede. "They play their little-mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen image to the hilt." Some 4,500,000 people live in the tidy land north of Schleswig-Holstein, and they wallow in hygge (pronounced HUG-ga), which simply means coziness. It is an indispensable word in Danish that reaches everyone, everywhere. People plan a hyggelig evening with friends; an old farmhouse can be hyggelig...
Comeback on the Corner. The nationwide chains are built to the hilt and boxed in by several kinds of competition. They are often outwitted by smaller, local supermarket chains-such as Florida's Publix, Texas' J. Weingarten Inc., California's Lucky Stores-whose managers are more sensitive to neighborhood tastes and do not have to clear decisions with far-off headquarters. The chains are also being nicked by a new phenomenon, the discount food store, where housewives pick their packaged goods from open packing cases instead of neat shelves, and pay prices generally 6% below those...
...stiffened slightly: she was quite prepared to undergo pain for him...but pleasure--she was not sure how that could be a part of the general picture." Even more disturbing, Daddy barges into the room just as the "gardener would have entered her...with a terrible thrust to the hilt, so to speak...
...each household-$2.30 a week for a married man with a $6,000 taxable income-economists calculate that the "multiplier effect" would give a substantial boost to the economy. About 60% of the cut would go to families earning less than $10,000, who usually spend right to the hilt of their income. Corporations would get back $1.43 billion next year in the first of a two-stage cut that by 1966 would bring industry's tax load down from 52% of gross profits to 48%. Over the next two years, Heller counts on these stimulants to bring about...