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...Morality." Lately, the Viet Cong have been trying to recruit more women. Their propagandists argue that the size of guerrilla and hamlet forces could be increased 50% overnight with the proper infusion of womanpower in the fetch-and-carry job echelons. The National Liberation Front has its own civilian association for women, with a complete program of awards, honor rolls and instant good-conduct guides...
...demonstrations. A group of mothers on welfare and their supporters were sitting-in at the local welfare office on Blue Hill Ave. for the third time in eight days. They had demonstrated the previous Friday only to leave in frustration. They had arrived again the day before and stayed overnight without incident. But on June 2, a Friday, the welfare workers wanted to close the office for the weekend, and the mothers' grievances had not yet been considered. Welfare Director Daniel J. Cronin had not come to the office to talk with the mothers. This time MAW decided they would...
...poured into Israel, were declared citizens, and went to work. The population tripled in 16 years. Supported by massive private donations (more than $2 billion) from world-wide Jewry, by equally massive U.S. aid ($1.6 billion) and by reparations payments from West Germany ($822 million), the nation sprang almost overnight from a picturesque wilderness to an enclave of clanging energy. Deepwater ports were dredged, power and irrigation plants built, modern cities and industries created. The desert bloomed, the orange trees blossomed, and Israel was suddenly the land of milk and honey. For 14 wondrous years, its gross national product soared...
...short revival. Politically, Hollywood soon succumbed to the rise of McCarthy, and culturally to that of television, both of which forced the motion picture industry to compete almost exclusively for an audience it had previously sought to resist. The results of this competition were fast and unmistakable: genres rose overnight to replace the social problems that were now taboo. Foreign settings, both in time and place, took over when it became impossible to face the present forcefully. Hacks were rampant...
Donald Barthelme's work creates the impression that something miraculous happened to him overnight-as if, blind from birth, he could suddenly see, or, fluent only in Urdu, he abruptly grasped English entire. The result is quite an explosion, a staccato burst of verbal star shells, pinwheel phrases, cherry bombs of Joycean puns and wordplays. Such a book is Snow White, an amusingly refurbished fairy-tale novel of the absurd-as episodic and pointless as a slow-turning kaleidoscope, yet just as strangely affecting...