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...takes an artist of power and originality to transform the White House into a cartoon museum. His name is Garry Trudeau, and his Doonesbury is more than mindless mirth. It is a climate of opinion, a mocking view of American life. Since the spidery lines of Doonesbury first appeared in the Yale campus newspaper in 1968, they have become the punch lines of some 449 dailies. The strip is now scanned by more than 60 million readers in the U.S. and Canada. Hard-and soft-bound collections have sold over three-quarters of a million copies, and the biggest assemblage...
Revel feels that Socialists err in dismissing Western-style social democracy as a "class collaboration" that defuses the proletariat. Focusing on class struggle, he argues, serves "less to transform the condition of the working class than to prevent capitalism from functioning." For his part, Revel prefers the libertarian inequalities of modern capitalism to "an inequality in penury under the control of a dictatorship...
...broaden corporate leadership by drastically altering the traditional chain of command. Instead of one man at the pinnacle, the companies are creating the so-called "office of the chairman," which is composed of three, four or even five top officers who share responsibility for running the company and transform the old method of solitary decision making into a kind of group think. Last week the idea began to take on the dimensions of a full-blown fad when two corporate giants-Trans World Airlines and Sears, Roebuck & Co.-adopted the arrangement on successive days...
...Quebec government-run corporation announced plans to transform an area nearly the size of California with a series of dams and reservoirs. The goal was to increase Canada's electrical output by 30% and stimulate the province's economy. There was also a good deal of cultural pride at stake. To the Quebecois, the project was an economic extension of a struggle to strengthen French identity...
...Jehovah's Witness; later she dipped into Oriental religions. As a teenager, she drew furiously, then turned to calligraphy and finally to poetry. Says she: "Art takes the primitive and pumps it up real high from the heart to the intellect. Those who are illuminated can transform sensation into something that everybody can taste...