journalist (and future senator) Richard L. Neuberger, for ex- ample, Dorothy McCullough Lee was portrayed as both an "ethereally pale housewife" with a "frail, willowy" appearance and the hard-nosed mayor of Portland, Oregon, who had success- fully fought organized crime and was "headed for national distinction."
The magazines that set the tone of postwar America did not pretend that women were crea- tures only of hearth and home. In reality, Friedan, herself a veteran...
white society," explained a Warner as a very positive one, but one that was re- Brothers vice president.
RELIGION &PHILOSOPHY
The Secret Cabinet of Dr. Foucault
A Survey of Recent Articles
L ittle known outside the academy, Michel Foucault (1926-84) is an exem- plary figure to many tenured radicals within it and an influential one to many other scholars. 'Whatever else Foucault was, he was a great Nietzschean hero," Princeton's Alexander Nehamas writes in the New Republic (Feb. 1...
JeffreyK. Hadden, in The Annals (May 1993), the American Acad. of Political and Social Science, 3937 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.
Since the sex scandals of the late 1980s that brought down TV preachers Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, evangelical religious broad- rhetoric. ...What positive conception he pos- sessed of a less oppressive society remains mys- terious."
some of Foucault's admirers fear that Miller's book will have an unwhole- some effect. It vividly demonstrates "why...
36 percent over 10 years. The televangelists' forays into politics also hurt. In 1985, when talk of a presidential bid Pat Robertson started to be heard in public, Robertson's TV audience began to shrink. Even before the Jim Bakker scandal broke in 1987, the audience for The 700 Club had fallen by 21 per- cent over two years.
But the nimble entrepreneurs of faith have readjusted. Robertson, for example, restructured his Christian Broadcasting Network to present family-entertainment programs along...
a committee of the National Research Council, Reilly notes, "said that EPA has no com- prehensive inventory of waste sites, no program for discovering new sites, insufficient data for determining safe exposure levels, and an inad- equate system for identifying sites that require immediate action to protect public health."
"The existence of toxic wastes at a site does not necessarily mean that they pose a threat to nearresidents," Reilly notes. Recent research has shown, for...
Jonathan H. Adler, in Policy Review (Spring 1993), the Heritage Foundation, 214 Mass. Ave. N.E., Washing-ton, D.C. 20002-4999.
At the turnof the century,GiffordPinchot and other leaders of the emerging conservation movement warned that the United States would soon destroy the last of its once-vast forests. Their pessimistic forecasts were not without foundation, notes Adler, an environmental-policy analyst at the Washing- ton-based Competitive Enterprise Institute. The 19th and early 20th centuries...
Packaging in the '90s" and "Demographics & Discards," in Garbage (Dec. 1992-Jan. 1993), Dovetale Publishers, 2 Main St., Gloucester, Mass. 01930.
America the Wastefulcould be the tide of a hit song on the environmentalist pkebox. The lyrics would tell how Americans in 1990 each threw away about four pounds of solid waste-about a pound more apiecethan.they had discarded 20 years earlier. The villain of the piece: excessive packaging, especially plastic packaging such as the...
Wasted Words
Packaging in the '90s" and "Demographics & Discards," in Garbage (Dec. 1992-Jan. 1993), Dovetale Publishers, 2 Main St., Gloucester, Mass. 01930.
America the Wastefulcould be the tide of a hit song on the environmentalist pkebox. The lyrics would tell how Americans in 1990 each threw away about four pounds of solid waste-about a pound more apiecethan.they had discarded 20 years earlier. The villain of the piece: excessive packaging, especially plastic packaging...
ens Peale with Geranium conveys the intellectual and scientific bent of Peale's brother and suggests the New World's fertile environment.
Carol Baton Hevner, was the first full-length study of the artist. "It is now clear," Washington- based writer May says, "that over many decades of painting Rembrandt Peale produced an out- standing portrait gallery of his generation of Americans."
As a young boy in 1787, Peale watched with fascination as his father painted a portrait of...
Chandak Sengoopta, in The American Scholar (Spring 1993), 1811 Q St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
When baker Satyajit Ray (1921-92) died last year, not long after being awarded a special Os- car, it was said that his films were more appre- ciated in the United States than in his native In- dia. That is empty self-congratulation, says Sengoopta, a Calcutta psychiatrist and journal- ist studying at Johns Hopkins. Ray's limited appeal in the West dramatizes the plight of the Third World artist who...