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Biographer Robert Lacey's task is to relate the woman who happens to live in Buckingham Palace to this "flourishing of the British constitutional monarchy"-one of the more "curious social phenomena of the 20th century," as he rightly observes. It is no easy job, and the word paradox gets used freely. In the end, Lacey, the author of a biography of Sir Walter Raleigh (and a staffer on the London Sunday Times), has spread his cloak over the puddle and gallantly invented a second Elizabeth to walk across it. If this act of prestidigitation is not a work...
...many interesting implications for economics that derive from Schumacher's alternative metaphysics is a major change in foreign aid and development policy. Two phenomena that characterize many developing countries today are mass unemployment and mass migration into the cities. Schumacher sees these twin evils linked by "mutual poisoning." Successful creation of a modern economic sector in the cities destroys the natural economy of the rural areas. The countryside, in turn, exacts its revenge, however; the rural population floods into the cities. This migration saps the cities' resources and makes them impossible to manage. The modern sector can't grow...
Edward O. Wilson may have overstepped reality in extrapolating his theories to human societies, but Sociobiology stands as a magnificent catalogue of scientific phenomena. All behavioral biology is in his debt...
MOST DISTINGUISHED DOCUMENTARY. Michael Roemer's Dying (PBS). A sensitive exploration of the emotions of three people confronting the ultimate crisis, it is that least common of television phenomena-a program that continues to reverberate in the mind...
...another teenage girl of recent vintage who is "somehow different," Carrie is endowed with a power not commonly found among us mortals--the power of telekinesis. Ashtrays somersault, mirrors vibrate and shatter--and the camera's close-ups on Carrie erase all doubts as to the source of these phenomena...