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...England's most controversial economist," as the dust jacket correctly bills Thomas Balogh, believes that the world is a ticking time bomb. Rich nations are getting richer while poor nations are getting poorer-and unless the trend is radically reversed, warns the author, all the colored races will embrace Chinese-style totalitarianism. His thesis is well-worn and his stark pessimism is questionable, but the problem of widening inequalities is all too real and urgent...
...rich get richer, and the poor, poorer. That's the way the Ivy League should shape up this afternoon, as Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Cornell meet their lesser lights...
...been trying a number of new crime-prevention approaches, I congratulated the chief on having a smaller than average monthly increase in reported crime, and I asked him what he thought accounted for it. He said it might be the increased draft calls, or an unusually rainy month, or poorer reporting of crimes by some of his men, or something he was doing right -- but, if so, he didn't know what it was. His position -- shared by officials all through the criminal justice system -- is like that of a retailer trying to decide whether to change his markup...
Describing the "process" behind the work of art quickly points up the difference in quality. The good works are enhanced by a view of their formation. For the bad, removing the mystery of their creation merely exposes their absurdity. In general, the poorer sculptures are simplistic works with sententious justifications. Dan Flavin, for instance, exhibits two parallel neon tubes, one yellow-gold, the other blue. The explanation? "Here will be the basic counting marks (primitive abstractions) restated long in the daylight glow of common fluorescent tubes. Such an elemental system becomes possible (ironic) from the context of the previous work...
...does Lady Bird's eye miss the capital slums. One project: the beautification of schools in the city's poorer districts. "Broken windows cost the District of Columbia $118,000 each year," she says. "I stood in front of a school one day and counted 26 broken windows on one side alone. But-and here is the magic-at the nine schools we have landscaped, the breakage has dropped to almost nothing...