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Last month New York's nonresidents began to howl. It was the first real fuss since 1920, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state may tax income earned by nonresidents so long as it is not discriminatory. Studies show that non-New York residents may be paying 45% more New York tax than residents with equal income and number of dependents. One big reason: out-of-state commuters may deduct only expenses directly connected with New York earnings. The great majority of them may claim only a flat 10% deduction on gross income or $500, whichever...
...universities and colleges that are always crying for more money cut out 85% of the education courses and 98% of the journalism courses, they would save an enormous amount of money and at the same time advance knowledge. Of course, howls going up would make the mountaintops rock. The superfluous always howl when their milk is cut off. For the academic year of 1957-58, the education department of the University of Texas lists 351 courses. They are all to make teachers more banal-minded. God pity your pupils; don't blame them for not being educated. What...
Both stories, as with so much undergraduate, or for that matter graduate (i.e., New Yorker) writing today, depend heavily on understatement, although Nash's understatement, paradoxically, is often prolix. The supreme achievement, however, is Arthur Freeman's poem "Whew": in a satire of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", he has managed to get the muse of the Beat Generation for once to understate herself. This is no mean accomplishment...
...farce moments can be entertaining and brightly cockeyed. The old maid daughter (well played by Martine Bartlett) is both amusing and touching. The son's outbursts can have a mad-dog howl and bite. But so abruptly do things shift focus, so wildly do they change tone, that farce firecrackers negate real bullets, and virtues are turned into faults. Where, by a stylized atmosphere and a sardonic inflection, Waltz of the Toreadors could mate humor with horror, lace wormwood with Vichy. Square Root jangles with false notes. Where, again, Williams could make a dynamic-if uncentered-story...
...those students who spent numerous and enjoyable hours last year listening to Barn Howl and Junkyard Jamboree, WHRB's ban on hillbilly music is indeed unpardonable...