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Though conservatives often lament the welfare mess in the harshest terms, they have offered few realistic and workable alternatives. Senator Barry Goldwater, in The Conscience of a Conservative, advocates turning all welfare over to private institutions???an 18th century solution for a 20th century problem. His onetime adviser, Economist Milton Friedman, and the Senate's newest prominent conservative, James Buckley of New York, both favor a modern concept, the negative income tax. But Friedman shackles the idea to what he calls, without being specific, a "modest" level of aid. Under the NIT, the tax scales would be continued downward past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Welfare: Trying to End the Nightmare | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...Planet, Percival Lowell s wife, who still lives in Beacon Street. Boston, last week suggested Percival. She rejected Lowell as being fixed to too many notable institutions???the Lowell Observatory, the Lowell Institute, the City of Lowell, etc. etc. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, suggested Cronos, son of Uranus and father ot Zeus Astrologers recommended variously I sis, Vulcan, Lilith.* Choice lies with the Lowell Observatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Percival? Cronos? | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...sent to 300 colleges and only 148 replied. The rule among the 148 is a single, comprehensive, upperclass course covering the whole field from the Mathers to Mencken, for which six hours of study-credit are given for the year. This type of course is boiled down in 25 institutions??? including Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Colorado, Occidental and Yale?to two hours a week and then usually amplified by offering advanced courses. Ohio, Grinnell, Hamilton, Amherst, Florida, Kalamazoo, Mount Holyoke, Carleton and 16 others content themselves with semester or quarter-year outline courses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: U. S. Literature | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

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