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IT SEEMS POINTLESS to speculate as to whether David Carradine, who plays Woody in the film, succeeds in capturing the "real" Woody Guthrie. Carradine doesn't really look or sound very much like the real Woody, and at times he seems so cooly laid back that it's hard to...
Staff Writer Patricia Blake, who wrote the story, is familiar with dissidence. A lifelong student of Russian literature and politics, she was the author of our cover story on the most famous dissenter of all, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Feb. 25, 1974). "I found what Sakharov told Marsh Clark particularly moving," she...
But the gamesman in most corporations is troubled, and therein lies the chief difference between Maccoby's findings and those of William H. Whyte Jr. 20 years ago in The Organization Man or Douglas McGregor in his 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise. For all his success, the...
Science alone cannot zero in on contemporary problems so easily. Most of the germ-caused diseases are well under congrol in the U.S.; the main causes of death now are heart disease and stroke, cancer, and accidents, homicide and suicide. Such ills can not be eliminated with simple drugs. They...
Yet the suspicious curiosity that drives one to make this stab psychologism cannot be dismissed so easily. The question still remains: what motivated Weil's deliberate self-destruction? Could Weil really have been as sound-mindedly generous and saintly in her suffering as Hardwick asserted in her review, and as...