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Ritual Slaughter. What is wrong here-very wrong-is the dreary familiarity of the theme, the reworking, still again, of English working-class desperation, the sour brutality of the language, which often sounds too toplofty and aphoristic for the people speaking it ("I'm an apostolic alcoholic." "Marriage is one of the few surviving forms of ritual slaughter...
Like certain other hunting animals, professional journalists do not thrive in captivity. Confined to a single place for any length of time with no news to cover, they tend to turn sour and surly. That has certainly been the case recently in Jimmy Carter's home town of Plains, Ga., to which the candidate returned for a lengthy working vacation after winning the Democratic presidential nomination last month in New York. A report from TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, captive in Plains...
John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys. Ever present and always fine, August 15 at Jonathan Swift...
...having on sales of the two soft-drink giants is so far inconclusive, and many Coke and Pepsi bottlers and some admen are upset about the battle. They worry that the confrontation will feed the public's cynicism about all advertising, attract unwanted attention from Government regulators, and sour consumer attitudes toward both drinks...
...growing numbers are plagued by a persistent, gnawing question: Is their Utopia going sour? Despite Sweden's prosperity, a sharp increase in burglaries and robberies has produced a sudden sales boom in police locks and other antitheft devices. Police in a country that for years took pride in having no drug problem have recently uncovered several large caches of heroin. There are no signs, moreover, that Sweden has made any progress in dealing with its nagging alcoholism problem or its high suicide rate...