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...achieving, Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Norman Carlson decided in 1972 that Butner, then in the planning stage, would be designed for new rehabilitation techniques. After bitter criticism scuttled early ideas of using transactional analysis and behavior modification, Carlson turned to the theories of Norval Morris, 52, a New Zealand-born criminal-law professor (and now dean) at the University of Chicago Law School...
...eclectic sentences; the thoughts come to him in bursts of various length, each one striving for profundity and literary value. This sometimes produces streams of semi-meaningless maxims (of Rubin, "He is Jimmy Connors deciding to be Chrissie Evert, as solemn as an oil rig;" of Canada, "a New Zealand on rubber wheels." Leonard must have some idea what these things mean). It also sometimes produces really good and perceptive lines (writers "will descend into pulpdom, where the libidinal cathexes are so simpleminded it seems that anyone with a grudge against women has a chance to make money.") Maybe Leonard...
Strangers Devour the Land is full of such natural poetry. By contrast, the numbers and statistics of economists and engineers and the jargon of sociologists and bureaucrats add up to a stultifying litany. Boyce Richardson, a New Zealand journalist, skillfully blends both sides in his documentary about the cri sis of a culture. The cumulative effect of his book is like being overtaken by a glacier. Even when describing the rich life in a Cree hunting camp, where he produced an award-winning film, Richardson cannot really mask his sense of fatalism. He accepts the fact that the Indians must...
...Chileans and Argentines are already eying the mineral potential of the Antarctic Peninsula, a natural extension of the tin-and copper-rich Andean cordillera. New Zealand continues to call the region that includes McMurdo its Ross Dependency...
...FIRST WORLD includes the advanced industrial nations of Europe, North America and Asia that accept a more or less capitalist, market-oriented economy. The U.S., Canada, Japan, most of the nations of Western Europe, New Zealand and Australia clearly qualify. South Africa, Portugal, Greece, Spain and Argentina are borderline cases...