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Those who detect a pervasive, low-grade child-aversion in the U.S. find it swarming in the air like pollen. They see a nation recoiling from its young like W.C. Fields beset by Baby Leroy. Of the 50,000 parents who responded to a query by Advice Columnist Ann Landers a while ago, a depressing 70% said...
...story clearly has been repeated and embellished. Raiffa last week received a telegram from Zurich reading, in part: "Last week, a well known columnist [Mseva Maria Borer] in a mass-circulation newspaper in Zurich wrote an article with the title "Lying Can Be Taught..."In the article she referred to your course on competitive decision making. The course section dealing with the strategy of deception was quoted as an example of the decadence of American society in general and the business world in particular. Teaching the youth and the future manager how to lie most effectively seemed...
...other front, former Senator Eugene McCarthy, 62, and Political Columnist James Kilpatrick, 58, began one evening to catalogue the bureaucratic monsters they often encountered: "Mr. Kilpatrick recalled the Budgetary Shortfall he had seen along the Potomac. Mr. McCarthy spoke fondly of Leaping Qantums." They roused Political Cartoonist Jeff MacNelly out of bed to portray their creatures, and the result was A Political Bestiary (McGraw-Hill...
Broder's Law. Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.−Political Columnist David Broder...
...American Lawyer (monthly through August, then biweekly beginning in September) is the most irreverent and gossipy. Its inaugural issue, which subscribers receive this week, reads something like an Esquire magazine for lawyers−not surprising, since its editor is Steven Brill, 28. Esquire's law columnist, and American Lawyer's seed money came from Vere Harmsworth's Associated Newspapers, the British backer of Esquire. "Our basic philosophy is nothing about the law. everything about lawyers and lawyering," says Brill. He promises investigative reporting on pettifoggery, news of the constantly shifting tides of power and prestige among...