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...recession forced many traditional liberals to grope their way down the unfamiliar path of restraint. But the trip may not be just temporary. President Ford's popularity is rising in part because he vetoed bills that were perceived by the people as congressional grab bags. New York City is viewed in Washington as a classic example of ambitious social spending gone too far, of a liberal-dominated polity gorging itself on promises that could not be fulfilled. More broadly, that organ of liberal theory the New Republic warned in an editorial that the growing "fear of big government, intervening...
Another Part of the Forest. Anyone familiar with Lillian Hellman's work will not want to miss this, and anyone unfamiliar with it should probably take this opportunity to remedy the situation. This play, written nine years after The Little Foxes, resumes the story of the loveable Hubbard family and its tale of passion, intrigue, fear and loathing. Opens Wednesday at the Loeb at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.50 and $6.50, but Harvard-affiliated people get one dollar off on tickets brought in advance and student rush tickets...
Editor Michele Slung offers a bright lineup of female sleuths dating from Victorian times to the 1940s. Aside from Mignon Eberhart and E. Phillips Oppenheim, the authors will be unfamiliar to all but cultists. Even the worst of them, though, retain a kind of campy charm. For if the paraphernalia of detection have not changed much over the past 100 years, the women clearly have. In The Stir Outside the Café Royal (1898), demure Miss Van Snoop captures a notorious murderer and then weeps for 30 minutes. Observes the author: "She had earned the luxury of hysterics...
Congratulations to TIME for injecting flesh and blood into the statues of the American Revolution. You have presented those figures as human beings, wrestling with not-so-unfamiliar problems, experiencing the human emotions-with nobility and banality, wisdom and foolishness, courage and fear-that we know, and out of all this, planting the seed of history's greatest democracy. You permitted us to see that our founding fathers were not larger than life, except in the ideals that inspired them. This is an invaluable lesson for our time. Thanks for teaching it with such lively imagination...
Their action is made easier by the fact that the traditional doctor-patient relationship has deteriorated badly. Patients rarely sue their family physicians, who often make up in compassion and concern for what they lack in technical skills. But few feel reluctant to sue an aloof and unfamiliar specialist who seems to take their respect for granted and often submits a sizable bill as well...