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...were not teetotalers would find some reason to roam off together into the woods, returning in a short while flush faced and very happy. The day, a hot late- summer afternoon, just sort of hung still in that stop-time fashion one associates with grandmothers' kitchens--and conversations therein...
...Therein lies the daunting challenge that Amazing Stories faces. Prime-time series attract loyal viewers by their familiarity, not by offering a vagrant astonishment each week. The operative word-of-mouth phrase is "you ought to see," not "you should have seen." Amazing Stories has no continuing characters, tone or stars--not even a regular host, like Hitchcock or Rod Serling. Viewers may prefer to settle in with Angela Lansbury's rumpled caginess in Murder, She Wrote instead of taking a chance with the faceless brilliance of the Spielberg series...
...Therein lies the difference between coasts. As Kaufmann observes, "New York publishers bring out a list twice a year, promote the hell out of the books that appear on it, run with those that are successful and remainder everything else." And along the Pacific? "Out here we put out our lists and stick with them. We don't like to see anything go out of print." Like a practiced surveyor, he knows exactly where to draw the line: "What we and Black Sparrow and North Point offer has perhaps less to do with geography than philosophy. Ten years...
...reported in the April 22 Crimson) was, to me at least, disappointing, owing to the new magazine's capitulation to a narrow-minded definition of such scholarship and of the role of a student publication devoted to it. I don't mean to attack any of the essays contained therein as such (nor have I or any of my friends had anything rejected by the Forum), but to question some unfortunate presumptions made in its assembly...
Most of the Soviet Union's economic and social ills can be traced to one source: the bureaucracy. Therein lies Gorbachev's basic problem. The bureaucracy is the Soviet system, its ubiquity guaranteed by the cardinal socialist tenet of central planning. Born in the mists of Russia's czarist past, rooted firmly in the totalitarian present, this permanent government has so far survived all attempts, most half-hearted, at reform...