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...question to kill or not to kill is seldom a matter of how much hunting can be permitted without threatening the well-being of a species. Wildlife biologists can accurately predict the effect of a hunting season on a wildlife population. Regulated sport hunting has never threatened any wildlife species in this country. The rising game-animal population in the face of increased hunting attests to this. It is another question whether it is right to hunt a docile animal like the moose. That decision is a matter of personal ethics best left to the individual...
...house shoulders the burden of the broken dreams, and the family, racked economically from the outside and crumbling on the inside from psychic wounds too deep ever to heal, comes to stand for America. But the record is not without its characteristic humor. Springsteen's writing has seldom been as fleet ("Early north Jersey industrial skyline I'm a all/ set cobra jet creepin' through the nighttime"), and he is the only writer around who can get a good, funny love song out of a date where the lovers eat fried chicken from...
...International Style, which dominated the architecture of the past generation, gave us bland high-rise boxes, not skyscrapers. The tallest buildings seldom give us a lift. As Chicago Architect Harry Weese observed, these minimal sculptures of maximum size "neglected the ground, the sky and, most of all, the user...
...added more than 50 ball gowns to her wardrobe (at an average cost of $ 1,700 each) and almost 200 dresses and suits (at over $340 apiece). Repelled by all the tacky reportage, the conservative weekly Spectator intoned, "The British monarchy has survived worse threats, but it has seldom suffered such indignities." Doubtless they will continue. Stay tuned...
Milwaukee equivalent, Rollie Fingers, was not. But which of these teams was more appealing is a tougher call. There has often been more glory in a World Series, but seldom so little guile. Both teams seemed to enjoy themselves hugely and, except for the quiet man, Cardinal Rightfielder George Hendrick, said so. The series was unclassic but fun, distinguished for more than a bunch of infield hits and a 2-hr. 15-min. rain delay...