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...game." Most newsmen appreciated his dilemma, but some took pleasure in needling him mercilessly about it. They had reason to do so, for they have never quite forgiven Arthur for writing in Foreign Affairs two years ago, that newspaper and magazine stories "are sometimes worse than useless when they purport to give the inside history of decisions; their relation to reality is often considerably less than the shadows in Plato's cave." So often did he, as an insider, come upon distorted accounts, he added, that it was impossible "for me to take the testimony of journalism in such...
...flop, and decisions are still made by "a calculus of individual economic costs." Bell's concluding imperative is strong: "If the city's economy makes sense today only in regional terms, so must policy." But backed by reason alone it has the hollow ring of all academic imperatives which purport to be solutions...
...really so necessary, warning liberals not to conceive whatever legislation does get through as a salvation. Since the Civil War liberals have learned that opponents of civil rights would not respect even so high an authority as an amendment to the Constitution. That there exist inadequate laws which purport to effect Constitutional strictures is no argument against adequate...
...itself constitute a threat to our society?" Unsurprisingly, NBC's Specials for Women have been showered with awards from organizations like Fame magazine and Radio-TV Mirror. The Specials for Women are reasonably good shows, marked on TV's achievement curve, but they are not what they purport to be: serious studies of women at the crossroads...
...breast and back, a blind news dealer beaten to death by men he could not see. These bloodlettings take place not in the primitive backcountry of the Congo but in highly developed cities; the killing is not done by savages but by men who, in one way or another, purport to be part of French civilization. The murder is so efficient and predictable that gravediggers in Oran prepare burial sites before the day's consignment of corpses arrives...