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...area of funding, the effect of Friends would remain largely indirect but still tangible. Ideally, the coalition would contribute primarily to occasional extraordinary expenses, such as a new auditorium, stadium, or lab expansion. In those extraordinary cases. Friends could help raise money to supplement regular education allocations. Some restrictions might be needed to limit any disparities arising from the varying wealth of communities. Without such provisions, wealthy communities could easily satiate their own educational appetites and thwart efforts to raise taxes for less prosperous areas. Executed fairly, a Friends system could increase all taxpayers support for education through a heightened...
...basic form of TIME journalism was the narrative?chronological narrative when possible. And so it remains. But increasingly, exposition and analysis had to supplement narration. This fact reflects a larger reality. America is an epic of action, but more and more, action is stymied by complexity or conflict. In a sense, America today is less a "story" than an argument...
...Liberation, the feminist movement has launched a host of publications ranging from radical underground broadsides (Off" Our Backs) to slick monthlies (New Woman). Some of these new journals now appear only sporadically because of money troubles. The latest Lib effort previews this week as a 44-page supplement to the year-end issue of New York magazine. It seems far more promising than its predecessors, principally because its editor is feminism's superstar, Gloria Steinem...
...Barbara Pym was a thriving author of well-made English novels. The Swinging Sixties, which got their early momentum in London, swept her out of style. It was not until 1977, when both Poet Philip Larkin and Biographer Lord David Cecil mentioned her in a Times Literary Supplement survey of unjustly neglected writers, that anyone cared to deal with a Pym manuscript. But Larkin and Cecil, literary mandarins though they were, turned out to have their fingers on the public pulse. Before she died, at 66, more than two years ago, Barbara Pym had again become fashionable. Today...
SINCE THE PAPER'S inception, editors have steadfastly maintained that they were publishing a paper for readers who wanted to supplement their regular news diet with a dose of Americana. Each day, the paper offers the weather, news and sports from all 50 states in addition to the day's big, national news stories, human interest features and an array of statistics displayed in easy-to-read charts. No other newspaper strikes the same enticing balance between being informative and easily readable...