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The White House is quite cold-bloodedly clear about its plans for the farm of the future. It emphatically does not subscribe to the notion that inefficient farmers must be kept on the land for the sake of tradition. Not for Nixon or Butz or Shultz the sentiment of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: Changing Farm Policy to Cut Food Prices | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

Child. Her father, who has been living alone in a cabin on a remote northern Quebec lake, is reported missing. Accompanied by her lover (a failed potter) and another couple, who use the occasion to film a glib backwoods documentary ("A marginal economy and grizzled elderly men, it's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of the Woods | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

THE FAMILY ASSISTANCE PLAN rolled a guaranteed annual income and a negative income tax into one structure. The $4 billion plan, involving only families, started with a base payment of $1600 (to a family of four) and added increments for additional children. The negative tax was set up so that...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: Welfare Politics: Finally Getting Nothing At All | 3/16/1973 | See Source »

George Orwell was born Eric Blair in 1903, the child of an Anglo-Indian civil servant who qualified, but only barely for membership in the English Establishment. He was the descendent of a long line of younger sons and could, if he chose to, trace his ancestry back to an...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: A Portrait of Orwell as Eric Blair | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

Orwell's primary autobiographical concern was the development of his socialist tendencies. Not unnaturally he looked to his marginal class background, and humiliating status as a scholarship boy at very snobbish schools. It is a vein that can be mined only so far, so Orwell generally diverts his energies from...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: A Portrait of Orwell as Eric Blair | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

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