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Montana-born Thurow is a professor of economics and management at M.I.T. and was an adviser to George McGovern during the 1972 presidential campaign. He is the author of one of this year's most provocative books on the economy, The Zero-Sum Society. In it he argues in favor of a greater redistribution of income and wealth in American society. He also supports more Government involvement in planning the development of key economic sectors, especially new technologies...
...death of God, the need for God, the rage against God if he does exist have obsessed Britain's Peter Shaffer for more than a decade. He has written three psychodramas that are, in a way that no author of an adulterous farce could imagine, plays about the eternal triangle. Two men are pitted against each other under the baleful or indifferent eye of a God who is present but never made manifest...
...physically attractive. There's a cheapness about the value of human life in our society that often shows itself in the way many folks treat handicapped people." These are sharp words, especially coming from a young woman who is a successful commercial artist, a bestselling author and the star of a two-hour, $2 million film version of her life that is being shown all over...
...author had a sentimental fascination for the raffish life of New York and Paris. His best-known character is Colonel John R. Stingo, a bombastic Tunes Square denizen. But Liebling is best remembered by other journalists for his enviable style. In 1972 More, The New York Journalism Review congratulated itself on its first birthday by holding the "A.J. Liebling Counter-Convention," a salute to the godfather of New Journalism...
...biography, Liebling did not think he was an innovator but a perpetuator of a writing tradition at least as old as Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. Liebling's prose remain s Raymond Sokolov convincing because it rarely asks the reader to believe more than the author saw, heard, smelled, touched and, of course...