Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...lingers still. For these voters--many former supporters of Edward Kennedy, or backers of John Anderson, or supporters of smaller third parties, or even those who "held their noses and voted for Carter"--the election not only rejected their candidates but told them they no longer were part of American politics. "America is a conservative nation now," the Reagan-blue electoral vote maps on TV screens told them, and all the instant analysts agreed...
...thrown. They had to know that the 13 hospitals and institutions which count on the plant for heat, chilled water and air conditioning would not be reassured if the lights started to dim or the incubators started to cool off. They had to worry about the strike continuing longer than they'd like, about local news films showing Harvard-hired security agents throwing picketers to the ground as unmarked oil trucks delivered their booty inside...
What was not said may finally be more important than anything uttered on the Cleveland stage by the two quiz show contestants. Few people quarrel with the ultimate goals of Reagan and Carter. But how do we get there? Our Government no longer works, and for four years Carter has proved it; yet he offered not one shred of evidence how he would improve his record, given a second lease on the White House. Nor did Reagan provide the slightest hint of how he might design an Administration that would get off the ground...
Today, the old Maoist disapproval of material incentives has been replaced with its opposite-a recognition that the chance to get richer will make people work harder. Wan cites the way local farm communes no longer have to produce solely according to a state quota system but can decide for themselves what to grow to satisfy local market conditions. Says he: "They are in a better position to know what to plant-and they can become richer." Under the old system, factories produced according to fixed quotas and turned over virtually all of their profits to the state. Now about...
...miscues and misfortune that these books portray, they nonetheless inspire elation, the thrill of watching craftsmen work with words. Roth and Elkin are both superb monologists, comic sprinters, which is one reason why excerpts from their longer works still seem satisfyingly self-contained. Roth describes himself as a child with "one foot in col lege, the other in the Catskills," and the Borscht Belt routine is what his first-person narrators constantly imitate, no matter how much they want to sound like Chekhov or Henry James. Elkin's characters are prone to bursts of speechmaking, and their creator...