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For the past six years, Doxiadis has invited 30 or so distinguished architects, businessmen, politicians and academics to a week-long superseminar on environment problems aboard a chartered Aegean cruise ship. Most expenses are paid by Doxiadis-who may or may not be a millionaire-and assorted wealthy friends. The...
Trapped in a racial buffer zone between the black ghetto and white suburb, the white lower middle class is hit hard for revenue to finance welfare and all the other rising costs of big-city government. The middle class has the heaviest tax burden, but almost everywhere lower-middle-class...
If you need further convincing on the matter, Doris Lessing's new novel. The Four-Gates City, is something of a scoreboard on which the hits and misses of the second half of the twentieth century have been recorded. That that score is most often a losing one should surprise...
Other entrepreneurs hastened to make the most of the moon shine. One Los Angeles breadmaker placed a TV commercial extolling "Helms-the bread on the moon." A New York supermarket chain ran a picture of the moon-"238,000 miles from Waldbaum's"-and beneath it advertised extra-large...
Author Charyn zooms in upon the Tanaka family, Niseis held at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. Switching angles and changing focuses, splicing bits and pieces sharp as shards, he re-creates their barbed world in a manner often confusing but finally effective. With their mother dispatched to another...