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BOND: I tend to be pessimistic, rather than optimistic. While income for black has been increasing, it has not been increasing apace with whites. We're not moving up fast enough, so the gap is getting wider. I think that's going to continue...
...acknowledge economic inequities, but always in the context of isolated examples of economic justice gone awry. His discussion of increasing Federal subsidies to "corporate farms" while Federal and state food-assistance programs are allowed to deteriorate is quite good, but he is reluctant to place this "contradiction" in its wider economic context. It is not at all surprising, however, that a Justice of the Supreme Court eschews a Marxian critique of the United States...
Lenin's heirs in Russia do not face this kind of opposition as yet. Nonetheless they are also caught by the contradictory force of middle-class consumer appetites for a better, wider life and by the insistent demands of the creative and scientific intelligentsia for greater freedoms. It is more than likely that both the Western and Communist nations have entered a new historical period. If Soviet leaders choose to react to it by being flexible and granting greater freedoms, they will be able to find chapter and verse in Lenin to justify their course. If they react...
Pusey, in creating the committee to examine the relationship of universities to corporate enterprises, said, "The President and Fellows (a Harvard governing board) are frequently called on to make decisions which affect Harvard's relationship with the business world, often involving social and political considerations of wider importance than simply to Harvard...
...movie is "conceived of as a political film with an even wider canvas than "Z'," Ritchie said. He went on to say that "the film is not intended as a memorial or curio but as a story with great significance...