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Nearly 30 million people ride subways, buses, trolleys or commuter trains every weekday in the U.S. Yet everywhere mass transit is either stalling or rumbling inexorably toward ruin. Items...
...made a hell of a living from it." Indeed, one of the nine books he wrote or collaborated on is titled The Good Old Days-They Were Terrible. Bettmann is one of those rare creatures, an optimistic humanist. His belief that the world is not going directly to ruin has led to one of the main reasons for the archive's success: historical pictures add a depth of understanding to current events. Explains Bettmann: "Why show students protesting at Berkeley? Everyone's seen that. We've got a woodcut of Yale students rioting a hundred years...
...three from the Ministry of Labor and Wages. For 45 minutes, the panel discussed Solidarity's demands, from the five-day week to access to the national media to the farmers' union. The government presumably hoped to portray Solidarity as leading the country toward economic and social ruin, a point that official television commentators have begun to make regularly. If so, the ploy failed. At one point, to show that other countries worked on Saturdays, a government representative ineptly pointed out that French consumers could even buy cars on Saturday. Responded the Solidarity side: because of the perennial...
...imaginary beings called states?" Indeed, arguments over the mess the Constitution was about to create grew so strenuous and disconcerting that George Washington later confessed he had been ready to support "any tolerable compromise that was competent to save us from impending ruin...
...Julia a fool or a saint? Is there a difference? One suspects that William Trevor does not think so, though he is too careful a novelist to ruin his effects with philosophical inquiry. His effects are startling in their range and complexity. Trevor can be sharply funny, as in his description of a television director: "Attired in what appeared to be the garb of a plumber but which closer examination revealed to be a fashionable variation of such workman's clothing: his dungarees were of fawn corduroy, his shirt of red and blue lumberjack checks. He wore boots that...