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PERHAPS THE MOST discouraging aspect of the Philadelphia fiasco was the editorial response from the local media, whose members are composed primarily of white, cautious newswriters and editors. These papers make money because of the numerous middle-class white subscribers throughout Philadelphia and its expansive suburbs. The media reflected the moral casuistry of its readership, failing to face the essential moral question that begged to be raised throughout the days surrounding the event: What is wrong with a society that causes alienated, frustrated groups of people such as the members of MOVE to arise? If our society is as perfect...
...family of four whose income is worth $20,000 at today's levels has seen its effective federal income-tax rate rise from 12.4 per cent in 1968 to 16.2 per cent today, Roth said. And by 1983, if current trends continue and the family continues to receive pay increases to match inflation, the tax bite will climb to 20.2 per cent, he added...
...social life of a nation needs openness and free public opinion," the letter, whose signers included Polish primate Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski and Cardinal Carol Wojtyla, read...
...Olsen manages to transcend her own personal frustration to empathize with all people whose creative efforts society thwarts. Silences is more than a memoir or a narrow feminist polemic. Though the book did grow out of her own "special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly mute at having to let writing die over and over again in me," Olsen eloquently and passionately documents a spectrum of circumstances, most beyond the control of the writer, that corrupt or destroy his art. (Olsen criticizes the language's invidious bias towards the male...
...eleven black writers publish more than two novels? Why don't more poor people write? In the first place, Olsen contends, the most fundamental prerequisite for sustained, flourishing productivity, "the even flow of daily life made easy and noiseless," is a luxury the vast majority cannot afford. For mothers whose lives are "distraction, not meditation... interruption, not continuity' spasmodic, not constant toil," the long peaceful hours when the mind can rove and wander, and the writer can then bring his mind's meanderings to paper, those hours simply do not exist. For the poor, the illiterate, the hungry, or even...