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...addition to the ever present greed and the lust for special advantage, there are a number of reasons for increased deception. The general relaxation of moral codes is doubtless one. Another is the steadily growing pressure for personal achievement in an increasingly competitive world. The incentive to cheat is heightened by the fact that society is more and more an aggregate of strangers dealing impersonally with each other. Finally, there is the snowballing impression that every body must be cheating...
...constitution's particulars could last years. Paradoxically, a new constitution would offer strong provincial premiers a central outlet for griping, an unmoveable target. The national Conservatives could play on local sentiment and run a Reagan-like campaign, pledging to "restore" power to the provinces. Levesque's Parti Quebecois will doubtless try to capitalize on any pro-Anglophone or pro-West articles in the constitution; other provinces could rail against concessions to Quebec. The possibility of a wealthy province like Alberta withdrawing from a revised federation is greater then many think. Variations on Levesque's "sovereignty-association" formula for secession...
...result may well mean a year of silence from the Met. Though the opera could open its doors soon after a settlement, it is unlikely to do so unless an agreement is reached quickly. Lead singers were released from their contracts on Sept. 30, and many of them doubtless will sign with other companies. "You could get a domino situation," says Baritone Sherrill Milnes. "The famous tend to bump the less famous, all down the line." After another dispute with the orchestra that led to a three-month shutdown in 1969, the Met did start up in midseason...
...Doubtless another interviewer might find subjects who are not so graceful, people embittered or trivialized by circumstance. But no other interviewer has Terkel's ability to elicit such deep response; and no one can duplicate his fundamental faith in the general-and specific-public. In American Dreams that belief is ratified by a multitude who prefer enlightenment to opulence and stability to success. In So Long!, Walt Whitman boasted, "This is no book,/ Who touches this touches a man." Who touches the book of American Dreams touches not one but a hundred men and women and, by implication, millions...
...fast, hard fall of the U.S. auto industry will doubtless rank as one of the most remarkable collapses in the annals of American business. Even makers of horse-drawn carriages and buggy whips did not see their markets and profits disappear so quickly. Just 18 months ago, Detroit was fearful that it could not build enough big V-8-powered sedans to meet consumer demand. The industry in 1978 rang up $3 billion in profits. One hot-selling car: the $6,300 Oldsmobile Cutlass. It got a modest twelve miles to the gallon, but it had lots of vroom...