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...data bases that now exist in the U.S. range from general information services like the Source, a Reader's Digest subsidiary in McLean, Va., which can provide stock prices, airline schedules or movie reviews, to more specialized services like the American Medical Association's AMA/NET, to real esoterica like the Hughes Rotary Rig Report. Fees vary from $300 an hour to less than...
...response [Nov. 22] to your story on the Wurlitzer Co.'s fight to survive [Oct. 11], Sandra Rosen says that "no other manufacturer has maintained the consistent high quality of Wurlitzer." Obviously, Reader Rosen has not had to service these products. If she had, she would have been playing a different tune...
Much of the power of such a book, missing in the film, may stem from each reader's opportunity to form his own image of the characters. In the animated version, Beagle's fantasy unicorn becomes a stereotypical white horse with a horn. And the voices of actors reading the lines, background theme music and songs only interfere with the delicate unfolding of the plot...
Most of the more sophisticated statistical results prominently showcased in Roots are simply unintelligible to the non-expert. The reader must assume that the authors' use of tools such as the Semantic Differential and Thematic Apperception Tests is legitimate. What can be gleaned is that these methods rely on questionable interpretations of highly subjective data. The Thematic Apperception technique, for instance, consists of a set of vague pictures about which subjects are asked or write fictional stories. From that, Rothman and Lichter apparently quantify the myriad characteristics of protean versus rigid authoritarian...
...like a mighty penis coming to life..." Insight into the confused thinking of men such as Rubin and Hoffman is valuable, but the authors do not adequately prove that Rubin's excesses were attributable to religion, merely because he once said as much. Nor do they convince the suspicious reader that radicalism was tied into an unusual version of the Oedipal complex fostered exclusively in New York City synagogues...