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Traditional Keynesian economists were the sharpest critics. Said John Kenneth Galbraith, a professor emeritus at Harvard: "The Administration has promised vigorous expansion through supply-side incentives in combination with monetary policy that works through high interest rates and a powerful contraction of the economy. This contradiction can only be resolved by divine intervention-a task for the Moral Majority." Adds Walter Heller, who was President Kennedy's chief economist: "Only an ostrich could have missed the contradictions in Reaganomics...
...leaves no mark because it has so little sting. But if newspapers are similar in tone and coverage, who needs to read a second paper to balance the first? Newspaper readership has been declining for years. Young people read fewer newspapers than their parents. The drop in circulation is sharpest on the second newspaper in town...
...many of whom tended to judge television by the ill-fitting standard of theater, Shales has spent a lifetime observing and absorbing the medium. He waxes nostalgic about the days when "they called specials 'spectaculars' and everyone talked about the wonderful future ahead." Thus some of his sharpest barbs are reserved for network executives who do not even try to fulfill that glowing forecast. Says he: "You can't expect Hamlet every night, but you can expect a Roots every year or so, something that really knocks your socks...
Other developments have been greeted with less glee by the city fathers, though. The sharpest worries have been over the rapid growth in condominiums, usually by the conversion of scarce rental apartments. In early winter, it seemed the anticondo forces had gained a distinct upper hand, when the State Supreme Court upheld an ordinance effectively barring condominium conversion. Attempts to expand the scope of the law even farther, though, met stiff opposition this spring, and opponents of condo restrictions and rent controls appear to be gearing up for a major offensive in the November city elections...
When Joe Orton was bludgeoned to death in 1967, he left only four plays--his aborted legacy to black comedy. What the Butler Saw is the sharpest and most direct attack on modern society. With What the Butler Saw. Orton tried to revive the social satire and black comedy style of Restoration Comedy and early silent movies. The current Lowell House production more than does justice to what Orton hoped to achieve...