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...Jugular Vein. Other experts, among them Citibank Economist Leif Olsen, doubt that the shortfall will be that severe. Yet the price of avoiding crisis, the optimists agree, will be a sharp scaling down of the nation's investment goals through the mid-1980s. In a recent study sponsored by Washington's Brookings Institution, Harvard's James Duesenberry and two other economists derided "Cassandras" who are forecasting a shortage and concluded that "we can afford the future, but just barely." The Duesenberry study contends that Government can be counted upon to come to the rescue: by running...
...like energy development. The liberal argument is that capital is not so much in short supply as inefficiently used; for evidence, they point to the overbuilding of shopping centers and vacation condominiums. Conservatives, meanwhile, maintain that an allocation system is unworkable and would cripple the capitalist system-the jugular vein of which is the free movement of money. Moreover, they contend that the real need is for more investment. Among their proposals: lowering the capital gains tax and allowing companies to depreciate their plant and equipment faster and deduct dividends as an expense -thereby releasing more corporate funds for investment...
...same vein. Michel has painful difficulty marketing his film--his coarse and obese producer, between puts on a cheap cigar, urges him to spice it up with a few deaths, since no one is interested in live Jews these days. Returning from his interview at the studio. Michel rescues a young student who has been beaten by the police at a demonstration and helps him escape, largely because of his childhood experiences as a fugitive. Unable to understand his rescuer, the student mocks the study of film making as an occupation and needless Michel incessantly about his "bourgeois" life style...
Ludvik Vaculik's novel The Guinea Pigs (NY: Third Press) is a most brilliant venture in the Kafka-esque vein. Like Joseph K. in The Trail, Vaculik's hero is a bank employee. He lives a petty monotonous life with his wife Eva, "two tolerable little boys" and a couple of newly acquired guinea pigs that soon become the center of the family life. Our clerk works in a weird bank; enigmatic employees of the bank walkd out everyday with some of the bank notes in their pockets. Sometimes the money is confiscated by the guards at the exit...
...spends his spare time at plays, operas and especially movies. He is a considerable student of television, whether afternoon cartoons or old movies on the late show (he has worked up imitations of Humphrey Bogart's "Hello, sweetheart" and any number of commercial pitchmen). In a more Russian vein, he has begun reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose books fill him with "pain and awe," according to Mrs. Saunder...