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...community that Wynn was dead (he did not actually die until early the next morning), a crowd of 300 to 400 converged on the bar and began throwing bricks, setting fires, and looting stores in the neighborhood. In one episode, a group of black youths stopped a car at random, pulled out Marian Pyszko, a candy-factory worker on his way home, and bludgeoned him with a piece of concrete. Pyszko, 54, a Nazi concentration-camp survivor who emigrated from Poland in 1958, died three days later...
Unhappily, the systems of Adam Smith, and even of Keynes, give little guidance as to how to cope with the malaise. Much of the explosive 1973-74 inflation, of course, resulted from what economists call "random shocks" to the system: oil price gouging by the OPEC cartel and food shortages caused largely by unusual weather. But the underlying inflationary momentum seems to be supplied by modern capitalist democracy...
RAGTIME by E.L. DOCTOROW 271 pages. Random House...
Allen has a book out too. Without Feathers (Random House; $7.95) is a series of sketches that show the author as a gentle practitioner of the short-haired shaggy-dog story. Most of them should be read as experiments rather than as polished pieces of comic ingenuity. One essay, for example, "If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists," imagines that Vincent Van Gogh is a dentist obsessed with bridgework and X rays as art for art's sake...
CORREGIDORA by GAYL JONES 185 pages. Random House...