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...children successfully fought one of the world's biggest art dealers, Marlborough Galleries, for having contrived with his executors to acquire 800 paintings at far below their market price. Death and money; Rothko was terrified of one and catastrophically incompetent with the other, but they made him?and his work???famous...
That kind of collective work???with no profit, or any kind of individual reward, in prospect?made me feel that I belonged not merely in my immediate family at home, or even the big family of the village, but in something vaster and more significant: the land. It was that feeling that made me, on the way home at sunset, watch the evening scene with a rare warmth, recognizing an invisible bond of love and friendship with everything around me?smoke rolling down the valley, promising a delicious meal at the close of a village day, and perfect calm...
This technique banishes any tendency toward generalized moralizing. It makes the book worth a dozen sociological treatises. Feeling first trapped and then at home in Jones' existence, the reader is left with the enraging conclusion that for society only the extremes will really work???either the liberal view that the world of the poor must be fundamentally revamped or the conservative insistence that such men must all be locked up for life. Nothing less will really reach the Joneses, and nothing like either course seems immediately possible. Meanwhile, Jones has temporarily laid aside his life as a mugger...
...levels, from ESP experiments funded indirectly by the U.S. Government to the weeping throngs of California 13-year-olds getting blissed-out by the latest child guru off a chartered jet from Bombay. The acupuncturist now shares the limelight with Marcus Welby, M.D., and his needles are seen to work???nobody knows why. However, with Castaneda's increasing fame have come increasing doubts. Don Juan has no other verifiable witness, and Juan Matus is nearly as common a name among the Yaqui Indians as John Smith farther north. Is Castaneda real? If so, did he invent Don Juan? Is Castaneda...
...alternative to the rather hazy Nixon program is not a return to completely free markets but even broader, tighter and more rigidly enforced controls. By comparison, controls forged by labor-management-public agreement and enforced largely by voluntary compliance are more palatable to the nation. They could well work???if Nixon can create the necessary national spirit. For that reason, the President's flag waving on TV was not at all irrelevant. "He may have struck a chord," said a Democratic political leader in Washington. "Any time that a President appeals to the national conscience, no matter how schmaltzy...