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Without even reading the majority opinion by Justice William Brennan (for which, from a literary viewpoint, they can't be blamed), many politicians and pundits hailed the 6 to 2 decision as one that might change the U.S. political landscape overnight, and permanently entrench the Democratic Party. It was far from that. Without setting forth any guidelines for action, it simply gave federal courts the right to hear cases involving state political apportionment. As such, it was less a bombshell than a slow-burning time fuse...
ANNA V. MCCAFFREY Cambridge, Mass. Sore Eros Sir: Your merciless lambasting of Eros [March 23] proves what enlightened people already know about your magazine: it is a dazzling editorial product with a predictably narrow viewpoint, and at the core, it is rotten...
...Harry's Mama breaks misty-eyed into a song called Eat a Little Something (suitable subtitle: :I'll Cry To day), chiding her son for neglecting his character. It falls to Harry's old boss to give him a second chance and a hearteningly fresh moral viewpoint. In one sentence: it is better to be rich and honest than rich and crooked...
Grownups are always trying to translate the world of children into terms that make sense in their adult world. It's tricky business; for they often wax exceedingly sentimental in the process. Even the most sympathetic attempt at understanding a child's viewpoint must always be a projection of some kind of adult mystique of childhood. And this can so easily degenerate into triteness...
...exports this year to rise by $400 million, to $20.5 billion. But because many foreign nations retain trade barriers stiffer than those of the U.S., the Kennedy Administration foresees no major surge in U.S. exports-unless tariffs can be slashed throughout the free world. Agreeing with this viewpoint, the influential U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week resoundingly endorsed the President's drive for freer world trade...