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...only way into the scrap that the Service News could find was a review of the book by F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and chairman of the Committee of Censorship of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. Professor Matthiessen reviewed "Strange Fruit," saying that it was "thoroughly shameful for such a book to be banned in Boston at the very time when we need to examine every phase of our American race problems...
Even Nixon's economic critics would support some paring of controls. Arthur Okun, for example, proposes exempting any products that are in short supply, such as lumber and steel scrap, because controls on such items only lead to secret sales at illegally high prices. Liberal economists also go along with the Administration's argument that farm-price controls would be unworkable, even though something must be done about food prices, which rose 15% at the farm level last year. The consensus among economists is that the U.S. must overhaul its farm policies by increasing acreage allotments, reducing price...
...began telling fellow law clerks that he planned to follow in Cousin Theodore's footsteps. The first step was a seemingly hopeless contest for the state senate. But F.D.R. won as a progressive Democrat -thanks largely to the gusto of his campaign-and immediately plunged into a dangerous scrap with Boss Murphy's Tammany Hall over the selection of a U.S. Senator. Some of the book's best passages relate intricate New York politicking, with reformers pitted-as they still are today-against regulars. As a freshman state senator, Franklin often stood bravely on his principles...
...gravity, its indelicate openness. Hesse's role in providing American art with an exit from the minimalist impasse was crucial. Her ambition was to go in below the level of style, making art whose sensuous appeal was obliterated by its coarse, laconic materials: latex, cheesecloth, scrap metal...
Like Mailer's in recent years, Vidal's celebrity rests less on his novels than on his political and cultural journalism-to say nothing of his public feuding. There was that scrap with Robert Kennedy, the nasty split with stepsister Jacqueline Onassis. Then Vidal endured an expensive lawsuit by William F. Buckley Jr. that stemmed from a joint TV appearance in which Vidal called the conservative columnist a "crypto-Nazi...