Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DONALD BARTHELME WAS born and raised in Texas, and remains a shining example for all those unfortunates stricken with similar childhood calamities. At age 47, he is one of the most important writers in America today, published in both The New Yorker and in paperback--a rare, if dubious, achievement. Barthelme leads the so-called "comic irrealist" movement in modern fiction, which includes such lesser writers as Richard Brautigan and William Gass. But in his latest collection of short stories, Barthelme proves more adventurous than successful; stretched beyond its limits, his genre becomes tedious and inconsequential...
...committed by the same person, they are related in that they have plunged the local black community into an atmosphere of fear and distrust. These feelings are aimed especially at the police, who have responded to the violence against black women with much less enthusiasm than they have to similar crimes against life and property involving whites. The media has been no help either; until the most recent murders press coverage has often slighted or distorted the facts...
...guidelines if it stays within the bounds of the contract that the machinists signed with TWA before the guidelines were announced, which provided an average 12% annual increase in wages and benefits over three years. Citing the ravages of inflation, the machinists at United have twice rejected a package similar to the one granted by TWA. The 18,600 machinists walked out March 31. Negotiations resumed briefly last week and then were called off again...
...greeted the proposal with hints that Paley is really bothered because CBS has slipped to No. 2. Yet Paley made a similar proposal ten years earlier when CBS was indisputably on top, proud of being "mass with class." Is Paley now out of step at 77? He insists: "In this business at least, one always has to remember that he's not scheduling a network or anything else to please himself; he has to do it in order to please his audience...
...make "fuller and better use of this magic form of a communications," he does not mention Ed Murrow. They were once close, Paley's one exception to his rule about not socializing with office colleagues. Twenty years ago, in a speech that offended Paley, Murrow proposed a plan similar in some respect to the plan Paley now offers. In a cold war period when Murrow thought the country "in mortal danger," the newsman proposed that each of the 20 or 30 largest corporate advertisers give up one or two of their regular programs each year, turning the time over...