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...boycott effort not only serves to increase awareness of the plight of the Stevens workers, but also provides economic pressure to aid the workers in the tasks of organizing and collective bargaining. Stevens' large size, 85 plants in several countries, would make it possible for them to outlast a strike that only shut down a few of their plants. Due to this economic advantage and to their illegal union-busting tactics, the boycott and other unconventional economic weapons must be used...
Even if nothing else is "accomplished" this year, Carter has increased the awareness of problems from which there is no escape. He has provided a moral leadership, the benefits of which will far outlast any partial solutions a compromising Congress can legislate. All we can do, then, is hope that his inaugural speech did not mark his surrender to the entrenched interests he outwitted so well in his campaign. Michael A. Calabrese
...earlier era, House masters were occasionally as much of a permanent fixture in their Houses as the chandeliers in their dining halls. These days, masters barely seem to outlast their students...
...Journey of the Wolf manages to outlast the errors and inexperience of its author. Although his touch is unsure, Day keeps El Lobo and the story moving at a good clip, through a Spanish landscape drawn with evident familiarity and style. Most important, memories of the war still lend a fascination that the best fiction cannot wholly capture and the worst cannot extinguish. This passionate and brutal struggle was the postage stamp on a letter to the world...
...long for some of its values: family, community, roots. There was a new, only half-understood bond of sympathy between the only part of America ever to have lost a war and other Americans who had met their first defeat in Viet Nam. Summing up the Southern ability to outlast adversity, William Faulkner declared in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech: "I decline to accept the end of man... I believe that man will not merely endure, he will prevail." Most Americans, whether they knew those words or not, were suddenly more ready to receive their meaning...