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...local area. Writing with much urgency but less skill, Alan Gartner has nothing new to say about the difficulties of Negroes looking for jobs and homes. Indeed, his concern is not to enlighten, but to win recruits. He includes no more information than is necessary to soften up the reader for the inevitable appeal in the final paragraph: CORE needs...
...Gartner's article were an intelligent, objective survey of the problem, the reader might accept that it has a place in Current. But as it stands, "Discrimination in Boston" contributes nothing to a fuller understanding of Catholicism or Contemporary Culture...
...fight that American Weekly could only lose. Unnoticed by Hearst, the U.S. newspaper reader had crawled out of the jungle and was demanding more edifying fare than the Weekly supplied. By comparison, the new supplements seemed positively intellectual, and as the Weekly declined, they thrived. The Weekly's descent was greased by Hearst's stubborn insistence on staying first at any cost. "It was an obsession," says Arthur H. Motley, 61, publisher of the supplement Parade...
When a writer not known to have been guilty of science fiction sets his novel in the 1970s, the reader knows that a message is coming, probably on wings of allegory. British Novelist Angus Wilson, who has until now been content to annotate skillfully the thesis that people are unbelievably nasty (Anglo-Saxon Attitudes), sets the time of his new novel halfway between now and 1984, and the place is the London Zoo. Only a Symbol Simon could fail to read a message here...
...whole, Comment is sloppy. Too often does it substitute opinion for thought. And too frequently does it confront the reader with bad writing. Such faults are not the more excusable because of Comment's high principles; rather, they are the more tragic. It is a pity to see a magazine like Comment's handicapped by soft-hearted editing...