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...more inequality than seems necessary for a dynamic economy. Any attempt even to reduce significantly the gap between income classes raises the unanswerable question of just how much inequality is necessary to provide incentive. A significant effort to redistribute income would provoke fierce resistance from politically powerful groups that rank statistically in the upper classes but do not consider themselves at all rich (in the U.S. a $30,000 pretax annual income puts a family into the top 5%, a $15,000 income...
...favorite living novelist, [who] treats the novel as a tamer treats a wild beast." The encomium is understandable but slightly out of synch. Like Greene, Moore writes both serious works of art and prinking entertainments. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and Catholics placed Moore in the front rank of contemporary writers. Whatever its intentions, the Collection ends as a Great Victorian Legpull. And pace Greene, this time it is the short limb that is being pulled...
...position as a dramatist, however, rests largely on three full-evening works: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth (a revival of which will open at the Colonial Theater in Boston on August 51, and The Matchmaker. A small number, to be sure: but Chekhov's rightly elevated rank as a dramatist tests on only four plays, while Webster, Wycherly, Sheridan, Beaumarchais, Biichner and Rostand enjoy renown on the basis of two each...
Three major branches of world Christendom have held out against ordaining women to full clergy rank: Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism. The Anglicans have been wrestling over the issue, however, and last week the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada (membership: 1 million) voted overwhelmingly to allow female priests. The breakthrough in Canada is bound to make waves in other provinces of the Anglican Communion, notably the U.S. Episcopal Church, which is deep in an emotionally charged debate over women priests and faces a decision on the matter at its convention next year...
...with a barrel chest and an Afro that leaps from his temples as if galvanized, he works at a pace that would exhaust most men. His 18-hour days and hundreds of phone calls a week have helped him outflank such established matchmakers as Madison Square Garden and Top Rank, Inc., a longtime promoter and closed-circuit telecaster of Ali fights. Of course he has not been hurt by the cooperation of Ali and his manager, Black Muslim Executive Herbert Muhammad, who are happy to break old traditions and deal with a black promoter...