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Last week she scored again. Before a poster of the traditional Thanksgiving bird that carried the slogan DON'T BE A TURKEY. PAY YOUR CHILD SUPPORT, Allred and Los Angeles District Attorney Robert Philibosian announced the encouraging first results produced by her controversial campaign to persuade newspapers to publish the names of delinquent parents. After papers publicized 254 of the "deadbeat dads," 30 of them were located. Says Allred: "To paraphrase Gloria Steinem, 'You have to perform an outrageous act or rebellion every...
Lionel Abel, 73, is an essayist and playwright, and the latest veteran of New York City's old literary left to publish his memoirs. Other recent recollections of this once exclusive and fractious fraternity include Irving Howe's A Margin of Hope and William Barrett's The Truants: Adventures Among the Intellectuals. They were, in Critic Harold Rosenberg's memorable phrase, "the herd of independent minds," part of the theory class that dominated political and cultural debate from the '30s through the '50s. Although deaths, dispersions and change have greatly reduced the group...
...Globe hits exhilarating and exasperating extremes, by turns witty and influential, then erratic and arrogant. Its best quality is its dogged pursuit of corruption and injustice, even among liberal favorites: Winship says his most painful decision was to publish a probe of the personal finances of Edward Brooke-the only black elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction-which resulted in his electoral defeat. The seven-member Washington bureau and five foreign correspondents provide depth rather than routine wire-service-style stories, and the sports pages are perhaps the nation's best...
...amount of money they can bring in from abroad, so we raised the limit from $3,500 to $5,000. They asked to bring in investors. We said fine, provided they are not P.L.O. They complained about censorship: they had a long list of books they wanted to publish. We said to go ahead, so long as they are not about how to make a bomb or a Molotov cocktail...
...remarks were the basis for the assertions about Strauss and Spiegel. Among other potential witnesses: a Soviet bloc defector who was involved in efforts to defame Strauss, and George town University Professor Roy Godson, author of a recent book on Soviet disinformation. Goldsmith said last week that he will publish a book, to be written by British journalists, based on the evidence he accumulated. Says he: "Prime responsibility for stopping Soviet abuse of our freedom of the press lies with the media themselves...