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From time to time Harrington skips into the realm of political suggestion (usually to regret that the conservatives have hampered the Kennedy Administration). He provides no critique, however, of the New Deal responses to poverty and their current applicability. Nostalgic references to bygone CIO militance indicate Harrington's hope that revitalized trade unionism can defend the economic rights of American labor. But in a section on the Packinghouse Workers, he fails to show why a strong and honest union could not prevent the implementation of automation at human expense...
...those used to work on Thresher's nuclear reactor. At 10:30 Thursday morning-slightly over 48 hours after the submarine slipped out of Portsmouth harbor -a weary, grief-stricken Admiral Anderson told the press of the oil slick and debris and said, "So I conclude with great regret and sadness that this ship with 129 fine souls aboard is lost...
...tensions at a time when the city seemed to be making some progress, however small, in race relations. Complained a Birmingham Negro attorney: "The new administration should have been given a chance to confer with the various groups interested in change." A. G. Gaston, a Negro businessman, added: "I regret the absence of continued communication between white and Negro leadership in our city." Said the Rev. Albert S. Foley, a white Jesuit priest who is chairman of Alabama's Advisory Committee of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission: "These demonstrations are poorly timed and misdirected." Perhaps the worst part...
...York Jews. In trying to indicate that the ghetto experience need not guarantee an equalitarian outlook, I sought to invoke not the Jew who chooses to segregate himself, but the Jew who segregates against other minority groups (while still striving for equality within white Christian society). I regret having left room for misinterpretation...
...Marguerite Duras, 48, whose novel The Square was a random dialogue between two strangers who meet in a park, talk endlessly and go their separate ways. Her present book has slightly more action, but it, too, is really a long interior monologue that reads like a long sigh of regret...