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...style issues Goldwater was beginning to talk about and Reagan seems likely to emphasize are more related to the threats felt by average men with mortgaged bungalows, two-car garages, and bought-on-time lawn furniture. The old libertarian appeals for the right of each worker to bargain alone with his employer have been replaced by new libertarian appeals for the right of average men to refuse to sell their houses to whom they please. Such average men are notably more numerous in California than in other large states. And the threats to their rather bland and selfish life-style...
...with the soldiers on the Pakistan battlelines in the fight to save India. Shastri has also asked city dwellers to raise whatever food they can. "A well-kept garden should be a matter of pride to every household," he says. Obeying his own advice, he dutifully had his own lawn dug up and planted in wheat. There is also a drive to stamp out rodents and pests that currently devour 10% of India's grain. The government is discouraging persons from making grain sacrifices to the gods. Food rationing will begin in New Delhi this week and will...
...show now playing in Manhattan. Fletcher gleaned a few lines from Shaw's 1925 essay "This Baseball Madness," and added them to his impersonation. Wielding his unlikely prop, Fletcher-Shaw muses: "As far as I can grasp it, baseball combines the best features of primitive cricket, lawn tennis, puss-in-the-corner and Handel's Messiah...
...church-backed attempt to organize garbage collection in a typical holler where the families had traditionally tossed their refuse into stinking heaps near their houses. The people were so incensed at this intrusion that some of them took to dumping their refuse on the garbage collector's lawn. In Appalachia few community-wide campaigns go much further...
...will be painfully apparent to the reader of this collection of stories. Author Porter has superb natural gifts. She has irony, she has imagery, she has language. "Her style," wrote Glenway Wescott, "is perfection. It just covers its subject matter as if it were green grass growing on a lawn." Above all, she can think-and therein lies her principal problem. She sees her characters less as people who must live than as problems to be solved. There is too little warmth and softness in her art. But hardness endures, and six or eight of her stories will endure like...