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Elizabeth Rowe, a former head of the National Capital Planning Commission, the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, Washington's oldest planning group, and the Potomac chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, have joined Schenk's cause...
...strain of finding a common bond between Erica Jong and Elizabeth Barrett Browning forces Moers into some ingenious critical parlor games. Setting the tone in her opening chapter, ("My tale is one of triumph"), Moers presents a cloying portrait of George Sand as a scribbling SuperMom-prototype of the "efficient, versatile, overworked modern mother." The need to establish distinctly female traditions also leads to unabashed juggling of literary records. It makes no sense for a critic who has written intelligently about Thackeray and Dickens in previous books to claim that illiteracy is "plainly a woman's theme" or that...
...sophisticated discussion of Eastman's critiques of Hegel, he is also prone to the most inane nonsense, as when he asks, "If communism ultimately brought Herberg to religion and to William Buckley, should Buckley thank Stalin for doing God's work?" What difference does it make? In his concluding chapter, "Conservative Paradoxes", Diggins remarks that "In Nixon's heralded detente with Russia and China, one sees that a politician nurtured on McCarthyism can be anti-communist without being anti-totalitarian." Is Diggins saying that Russia and China are totalitarian but not Communist? That detente is an outgrowth of McCarthyism? That...
...REFUSAL of the Massachusetts State Senate's Ways and Means Committee to free Chapter 842, the state-wide rent-control enabling act, for a vote by the Senate is a disgraceful abuse of power in high places. Thousands of tenants depend on the law to maintain stable rents and to prevent unfair evictions by landlords. Without it rents would almost certainly undergo an immediate hike. Keeping the bill in committee at a time when its expiration date is drawing near will kill it, and so silence the voices of tenants and their supporters in the Senate on an issue that...
...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 has watched too much TV, or thinks too much about beefing up his chapter in Familiar Quotations, but at least he's in there plugging...