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Surf. Waterfalls. Rivers. Country Roads. Video Fish. Even Video Fireplace. Images to lull the senses and, in some cases, deaden the pain; Muzak for the eyes. Video entrepreneurs are selling 60 taped minutes of soothing pictures for folks to turn their televisions into environmental lullabies. Most of the cassettes were initially marketed to hospitals, doctors and dentists, but, reports James Spencer, president of Environmental Video Inc. of Manhattan Beach, Calif., "we are finding that the consumer is more interested than the medical market." The tapes are made to glance at, to distract, not to watch. Sitting down for a serious...
Gilder maintains that steeply progressive tax rates and Big Government destroy wealth and perpetuate poverty. He contends that federal levies, which skim off as much as 50% of income from wages and 70% of earnings on interest and dividends, deaden incentives to work, save, invest and take risks. The result: instead of using their savings for productive investments, too many people seek tax shelters and pour their money into "gold, baubles, flimflam films and real estate." High taxes are responsible for the U.S.'s While poor preparing the productivity growth because Administration's so economic policy much money...
...escape music is not always a midnight deadening to forget the day, or even a running away. Escaping can reject reality and then go toward something, and tell us something about dreams and forgotten hopes. That's the importance of Betts' music for the rock tradition that disintegrated after the sixties--the Hendrix and the Clapton sound, the high-tension, raging, hostile, exciting music that lashed out at something and died, or went the many strange ways its listeners did. The rock that succeeded it kept up the noise but lost the content. Sometimes it tried to club people into...
...healthful coffee substitute, Postpatented his recipe, dubbed the mixture Postum, and launched one of the first advertising campaigns for a prepared food. One ad exhorted: "Is your yellow streak the coffee habit? Does it reduce your working force, kill your energy, push you into the big crowd of mongrels, deaden what thoroughbred blood you may have, and neutralize all your efforts to make money and fame...
...entering a political group which the Bureau does not sanction--is much more severe. Government investigation of an activity marks it as illicit and dangerous. Its objects might reasonably fear that they will have difficulty getting jobs and will be shunned by suspicious neighbors. A widespread surveillance mentality could deaden our political life and make movements for change nearly impossible...