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...Hart and others who offer similar well-intentioned criticism are on shaky ground. Hart said that it is perfectly all right for newsmen to report the predictions of assorted experts and interested parties, but not to make any themselves. A fine distinction: such stories can influence events just as much as outright forecasts by journalists, which, in any case, usually reflect many people's views. Both newsmen and their audiences have a large, very human itch to look ahead and even around corners. It is safe to predict that prediction journalism is here to stay...
Yuseff Lateef begins a seven day stint at the Jazz Workshop. It is hard to predict where Lateef and his several instruments will take you. His last record, "Part of the Search," was a commercial, nostalgic attempt at the Swing music of the Thirties. It's probably a good idea to listen to WBCN's latest broadcast tonight before you shell out your money...
...giant step backward" for the court in the desegregation area. "In the short run," he wrote, "it may seem to be the easier course to allow our great metropolitan areas to be divided up each into two cities-one white, the other black-but it is a course, I predict, our people will ultimately regret...
...private ownership by public ownership, and the displacement of the market by planning." Socialism too is plagued by problems, especially the restriction of civil liberties. The economist's intention is to draw out the very basic underlying assumptions common to both socialism and capitalism and to try to predict how each will be able to deal with the three major challenges of the human prospect. At the very root, both systems rely on a "technological imperative," built into an industrial civilization that requires efficiency, a controlled artificial environment, and a necessary priority of production over the aesthetic aspects of life...
Heilbroner's approach is simple and straightforward, his style succinct and extremely readable. And his almost unconscionably brief treatment of such an overwhelming question is actually quite reasonable. The gravity of the human prospect, argues Heilbroner, is based not so much upon the ability to rationally predict the problems of the future, as in an appraisal of the capacity of all mankind to meet up to the challenges of the future; this self-evaluation is necessarily subjective. The Human Prospect introduces the reader to the more predictable challenges and solutions of the future, and leaves the doors leading into...