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...Moon, ostensibly about the Apollo 11 moon shot, Norman Mailer was really writing about Wasps (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants). Or so he indicated during an interview with Leticia Kent, published in the current Vogue. Hymenopterist Mailer, who has called Wasps "the most Faustian, barbaric, draconian, progress-oriented and root-destroying people on earth," has moved on to "some mysterious and half-spooky conclusions," notably that "the real mission of the Wasp in history was not, say, to create capitalism, or to disseminate Christianity into backward countries." It was to get the U.S. to the moon...
...root problem is that the tax take of states, cities and counties does not rise as fast as their costs, their populations or their citizens' demands for more and better services. From 1946 to 1968, states and localities multiplied their spending 6½ times, their debt seven times.-but their tax take only 5½ times. One big reason is that the Federal Government hogs so much of the available revenue through the income tax. Although 37 states also have income taxes, Washington receives 90% of all income tax collections...
...Editor James Wechsler set out in his column one day last week to try to justify the hours of stupefaction that he, like millions of other American husbands, spends watching football on the tube. To many women, an even greater mystery is how their husbands pick the teams to root for. With wondrous invention, Wechsler explained that his choices are determined by his social conscience...
...escape the manifold idiocies of urban existence. As Paul Goodman points out in his introduction, however, it does not really bear much relation to the freewheeling life-style being hashed out now in the communes and children's colonies. These new seekers are hungry not for parsley root and multiplier onions but for meaning, personal identity and love-the sort of things the Nearings could take for granted in 1932. If they find what they are looking for, the discovery could help redeem the country. In the meantime they could do worse than heed the word from Cold Comfort...
...sees it, statistical data prove that total pollution in the U.S. increased disproportionately between 1946 and 1966, while population rose by only 43%. Nor is pollution localized in cities where the most people are: radioactive fallout, pesticide residue and fertilizer run-off all pollute the rural environment. The root problem, Commoner said, lies in consumption patterns. Bowing to economic incentives, man now prefers synthetic materials like rayon and plastic to natural ones like cotton and wood. In fact, the number of new products-each of which needs greater inputs of energy and technology -multiplies every year...