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...Lyman called the Irish "a race that will never be infused into our own, but on the contrary will always remain distinct and hostile." The Eastern European Jews who fled the pogroms were an embarrassment to the cultivated German Jewish establishment in the U.S. Some of today's immigrations stir hatreds, but if anything, the new Asians at least may be more welcome than most of the Italians in the generation of Lee Iaccoca's father. So many of the Asians come from the middle class, or aspire to the middle class, and are driven by a stern Confucian ethic...
...protected by the First Amendment. Advertisements, wrote Justice Byron White for the majority, are not comparable to face-to-face solicitation of clients, which can be prohibited because it is "rife with possibilities for overreaching . . . and outright fraud." The court rejected the contention that ads like Zauderer's will "stir up litigation" unnecessarily. "That our citizens have access to their civil courts is not an evil to be regretted," said White. "The state is not entitled to interfere with that access by denying its citizens accurate information about their legal rights...
...year 1926 changed her prospects and her life. For one thing, she published The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which caused a stir because it broke the rules of detective fiction: the narrator did it. Something more shocking followed. In December Agatha left her husband and child and disappeared for ten days, setting off a nationwide search and a carnival of speculation. Morgan's re-creation of this drama is meticulous, but it lacks, perhaps unavoidably, the tight resolution that Christie gave her invented plots...
...Reagan announces his tax-reform package in a nationwide speech scheduled for next week, he will call on Congress to shun the influence peddlers and approve a program that is both simple and fair. Unfortunately, the Administration has tossed enough favors for interest groups into its own package to stir grumblings that the preacher himself has been tippling on the way to the temperance meeting...
...everyone is tapering off, of course. According to the Yankelovich poll, 26% of the population continues to drink as it always has. Marshall Lyons, 31, a Berkeley, Calif., tree surgeon, even gives nostalgic martini (stir, don't shake) parties, complete with Peggy Lee music, because, he says, "martinis have the aesthetic of cold steel. They're like contemporary graphics." Dudley's, a workingman's tavern in Atlanta, has not slacked off selling ten kegs of beer a week as it has for years. "We're a neighborhood place," says Manager Tas Cofer. "We get workers from GM, construction men, manual...