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...fugitive from the North, and his hard, lean looks, the result of a life in prison that consumed nearly 25 of his 37 years, enabled Jack Henry Abbott to mix in easily with the transient roustabouts who work the Louisiana oilfields. It was the sort of life where a man could, if he wanted to, virtually disappear. Earlier this year, Norman Mailer had led a campaign to secure parole for Abbott, largely on the basis of his writing talent. His letters from prison, collected under the title In the Belly of the Beast, were released to fair critical acclaim...
...Soviet housing, with the five-year waiting list for a room of one's own, and couples sometimes stolidly enduring their marriages because there is no other apartment (no other bed, even) to escape to. It is not like the arrangements in dense Hong Kong, as busily transient as an ant colony, or Tokyo, where much middle-class housing looks like the crew's quarters on a submarine...
...beyond transient legalities, the strike opened the door upon a more primitive question: What is the worth (moral, financial, mystical) of a person's oath? What do we mean when we promise, when we vow, when we pledge our word? Whatever their union's legal case may be, the controllers did take an oath; was that not a binding deed? Many Americans found themselves distantly disturbed that what was once a matter of some human solemnity should be brushed aside as if it were merely a technical detail. The social edifice shuddered slightly; down in the basement...
Reagan plans to explain that high American interest rates are a transient phenomenon; if his budget and tax cuts succeed in reducing inflation and unemployment, interest rates will fall...
There is a danger, of course, that in this burst of enthusiasm Mozart will-or perhaps already has-become overexposed, merchandised like a bar of soap or a political candidate. But while a vogue is transient, music is not, and Mozart's is for the ages. Even music he wrote when he was nine. -By Michael Walsh