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...spring has its way this weekend and behaves in an excruciatingly sunny manner it will be hard to resist the lure to loll along those banks of the Charles that have not yet been sacrificed to the upriver march of sewer pipes. It might be the sort of weekend to lie in the grass listening to songs of young romance on WROR--FM and read old Bennett Beach columns, to toss a whiffle ball or lick a yogurt cone strolling down Brattle Street. That sort of weekend is the oregano of our salad lays--and it might seem hard...
...little black paperback entitled Documentos Secretos de la ITT (Secret Documents of ITT). For the most part, the government-sponsored book is a straightforward collection of the Jack Anderson memos alleging that ITT officials worked to prevent Allende from taking office in 1970. The official translators, though, could not resist one pointed gibe. On page 12, the term Foggy Bottom, a traditional way of referring to the U.S. State Department, is defined as "the nickname applied to a group of incompetent pinheads...
...results. If he runs into a dead end, and if the consequences of continued wrong practice "will result in further injury, fraud or other corporate or governmental crime against consumers," a worker should go public-by contacting the press, his Congressman or his Senator. Nader cautions dissident employees to resist resigning from the company if at all possible. "If you go," he asks, "who remains to fight the good fight...
BESIDES THE virtues of clear and thorough reporting, Featherstone's book boasts at least two other invaluable assets; an unremitting emphasis on the need to resist dogma and to create change thoughtfully, if slowly in practice as well as in theory, and a refreshing understanding of where reforms probably begin and end, of how far schools may improve with straightforward changes in practice and to what degree boarder issues of race, inequality, income distribution, and public finance will have to be faced before more fundamental change is realized. Schools Where Children Learn centers on what Featherstone, in an interview, called...
...sure there are--I don't think you quite know until you resist. Mailer himself is not much of a revolutionary. I somehow feel once you introduce the word, you find yourself backtreading or apologizing or something. The threats that have struck me, that have aroused some kind of gut feeling in me, have not been from the right but from the left--I don't know quite why this is, whether I'm so remote from the right that I don't take them seriously at all. I do take people who run the New York Review of Books...