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Only a couple of months ago Gardner Ackley, present chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, remarked that "You're soon going to hear a lot more about guidelines." Rarely has any prophet been proved so accurately occult. And last week, as Ackley and his colleagues worked on their annual economic report, they could only be aware that some changes may have to be made in both the principles and the application of the wage-price guidelines...
...when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind? --Kahlil Gibran The Prophet...
...really love Gibran. The Prophet is my Bible on the road," smiled Hope Diamond nee Leona Bonaccolte), pointing to a well thumbed copy which lay on her dressing room table atop the pile of sundry boudoir exotica she was rummaging through...
...ELECTRONIC technology seems to have abolished time and space. Computers calculate inventories, bank balances and rocket orbits instantaneously, thousands of miles away from their "clients." Culture is transistorized and education telemetered. Tomorrow or the day after, according to Canada's Marshall McLuhan, the most provocative scientific prophet around, people will be able to perform their jobs or shop via television from their homes (if they and their wives can stand it, that is). Despite such present or potential miracles, the business of voting in America-the most important business in a democracy-is slow, cumbersome and primitive. Says...
...ha.s a father complex, and the old man has a Mom problem - the results of incestuous love repressed in their childhood, naturally. Hero Wylie understands their problems, but when they start an affair, he burns his notes and walks out. The reader may have beaten him to the exit. Prophet Wylie's inexhaustible choler dismisses with equal contempt sexual inhibition, racism, beehive hairdos, Middle Western accents and piped music. Perhaps it is time that a kindly cop asked him, gently, to move along...