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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Agnew's campaign against the press, whose "columnists and commentators" he had labeled "ideological antagonists" the night before. Among those who pressed him on that point were Michigan's William Milliken, Delaware's Russell Peterson and New Jersey's William Cahill, who urged Agnew to abandon his "shotgun" attacks and adopt a more precisely targeted "rifleshot" approach...
...University, that monument to how wrong the nation's life can become, Gilligan announced that he will form a state volunteer corps, enlisting Ohio's 700,000 college students, to help part-time to clean up polluted streams, care for the sick, work with police and otherwise abandon their privacy to coax some improvement in their communities...
Once the spiral starts, it develops a self-accelerating momentum. Union members, dismayed by the extent to which inflation eats away their pay gains, clamor for ever fatter wage increases. Businessmen borrow with abandon to build bigger inventories and more factories than they need, figuring that everything will cost more tomorrow. When this "inflationary psychology" takes hold, only drastic action can break...
...short of Galbraith's controls. Administration officials argue that incomes policy has never worked anywhere. They point out that Britain's Tory government is abolishing the Labor-created National Board for Prices and Incomes. In addition, Canada's Price and Incomes Commission announced last week that it would abandon the wage-price guidelines that it had been trying to induce business and labor to follow. Even some liberal economists tend to be skeptical of such experiments. "A young man might win himself a Nobel Prize for developing a workable incomes policy," says Paul Samuelson...
Then why not abandon hope, surrender to the city, and trust in Christ's promised pardon? With stern Calvinistic orthodoxy, Ellul replies that those who do so immediately mark themselves among the unpardoned. For the Christian he suggests a subtler course: work with and in the city, but stay apart from it spiritually, disarming its lures to power and pride with the humor of an "active pessimism." But there may come a time, Ellul cautions, when life in the city "is no longer possible for the Christian." What then? Flee...