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Jamison's book is an attempt to align the public behind the steam peoples efforts to replace the automobile. It is a well-documented, easy-to-read analysis. Comprehensive and scientific, it still manages to explain to the reader what problems antipollution efforts face, and what the layman can do about...
...Life" with an eye towards correcting them, but his presentation consists of fragments. The only Evil he points to is The Establishment, a term which he never defines, and which he never adequately explores. There is no coherence to his argument, except that which can be inferred by a reader whose political sophistication has moved beyond the mere absorption of historical facts and economic statistics. Douglas recognizes that "a vast restructuring of our society is needed." but he argues that such a restructuring should be the result of institutional changes initiated from above. Thus, when referring to the inadequacy...
...that federal and local fair-housing laws are "notoriously unenforced." As your example, you note that the U.S. Justice Department has 13 lawyers assigned to fair-housing enforcement and that we have "brought 44 cases to court and won 13." The last phrase might easily be construed by the reader as suggesting that we have lost 31, or 70%, of our cases...
...portion is that which relates the percentages of nonwhite children v. white children receiving "DTP" vaccine. The actual disparity is 20% v. 8.6%, which is more meaningful and less discriminatory than the apparent gap implied to the casual reader (20% nonwhites not receiving shots-91.4% whites receiving vaccine...
...Idealist. Rarely is Casals personally revealing. He does offer praise for Martita, his youthful present wife, married in 1957. "She is the marvel of my world, and each day I find some new wonder in her." It is only in the second half of Joys and Sorrows that the reader begins to glimpse Casals the idealist, who used his artistic prestige to protest political injustices. Early in life he rejected socialism: "Full of illusions about changing society and man," he decided. "How is man to be changed when he is full of selfishness and cynicism, when aggression is part...