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...balance, the recommendations would make unemployment rates slightly higher than now. Main reason: the commission wants to count as unemployed any discouraged worker who has sought a job within the past six months, vs. four weeks under present policy. That change, says the commission, would raise the jobless rate by two -or three-tenths of a point...
...fact, for many Americans, today's high rates have become a bonanza. The reason: since June, banks have been offering money market certificates. These are six-month time deposits that pay interest equal to-or when sold by a savings and loan, a quarter-point better than -what the Government has to offer to sell its six-month Treasury bills. And while regular bank certificates of deposit normally cannot be had for under $100,000, MMCs sell for as little as $10,000; many people have switched their savings to them...
...chief complaints of the Carnegie Commission is that public television is too dependent on British imports. Coincidentally, PBS is about to broadcast the longest and most ambitious British series of all, the 37 plays of William Shakespeare, spread out over six years. The series, the Carnegie Commission to the contrary, will be public TV's greatest monument, a fitting demonstration of what television can be, should be and, in Britain, often...
...acquired recognition, Waugh adopted the ways and means of a country gentleman. In a big house he lived surrounded by six children, his second wife Laura, servants, heavy furniture, mullioned windows and good bindings. He was never chatty about his work. On those few occasions when he lowered the drawbridge to journalists, Waugh remained grandly indifferent to explanations of his comic genius. He insisted, "I regard writing not as investigation of character, but as an exercise in the use of language...
Dubin's Lives, Malamud's seventh novel and first book in nearly six years, follows the uncompromising trail of his previous fiction and makes the journey memorable once again. William Dubin is a successful biographer in his mid-50s. Isolated by choice on nine acres of land in upstate New York, Dubin begins a new book, mindful of the vicarious nature of his craft: "One writes lives he can't live." The subject in this case is D.H. Lawrence, whose yawps about sex and blood consciousness seem designed to unhinge middle-aged intellectuals. Dubin proves no exception...