its brute economic power, the domesticists reasoned that if the U.S. economy "could be revitalized and steered back to price stability, market incentives, and freer trade, the world economy might be induced to follow."
Nau maintains that this approach has worked. Worldwide, inflation is down, and long-depressed economies are beginning to bloom anew. Next, says Nau, Washington should try to capitalize on its successful trade talks with Israel and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
the book's authors, Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
The two business consultants published their book when the nation was mired in its deepest recession since the 1930s and when U.S. busi- nessmen were desperately trying to figure out where they had gone wrong. Notes Business Week:"The book's basic message was U.S. com- panies could regain their competitive edge paying more attention to people-customers and employees-and by sticking to the skills and values they know best. And...
the book's authors, Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
The two business consultants published their book when the nation was mired in its deepest recession since the 1930s and when U.S. busi- nessmen were desperately trying to figure out where they had gone wrong. Notes Business Week:"The book's basic message was U.S. com- panies could regain their competitive edge paying more attention to people-customers and employees-and by sticking to the skills and values they know best. And...
pher Lasch, in Harper's (Nov. 1984), P.O.
Box 1937, Marion, Ohio 43306.
The nostalgic notion that "things ain't what they used to be" is often cultivated the political Right and criticized by the Left. Ironically, says Lasch, a University of Rochester historian, both sides share a de- sire to avoid taking history seriously.
Nostalgia emerged as an ideological issue during the late 1940s, when Progressive historians such as Columbia's Richard Hofstadter la- mented that Americans, buffeted...
creating new identities or inventing usable pasts." Only the "educated classes" have the luxury of believing that it can. Unfortunately, these are the very people Americans count on to come to grips with the lesson of the nation's past in charting its future.
"The Garbage Decade" William L.Garbdogy Rathje, in American Behavioral Scientist
(Sept.-Oct. 1984), Sage Publications, 275
South Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif.
90212.
"You are what you eat," goes...
his students. But the game turned serious; a team of trained research- ers has since analyzed, weighed, and catalogued household refuse in Tucson, Milwaukee, Marin County (California), and Mexico City.
One advantage of garbage research is that it uncovers what people would rather not reveal about themselves or might not even know. There is, for example, a considerable disparity between how much alco- hol people say they drink and the number of wine and liquor bottles that actually turn up in...
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SOCIETY
Lamb, a psychiatrist who headed an American Psychiatric Associa- tion study of the problem, traces its origins to the early 1960s, when "deinstitutionalization" began. Scandalous conditions at state mental hospitals helped to start the process. So did new theories of treatment and 1963 federal legislation that made the mentally ill eligible for dis- ability benefits and established small community mental health cen- ters. The number of patients in state mental institutions...
PaulReagan 1, Media 0 Johnson, in Encounter (No". 1984),59 St.
Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4JS, Eng-
land.
In his 1984 memoir Caveat, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig complained that during the early days of the Reagan administration the nation's TV networks, newsmagazines, and top newspapers "let themselves be converted into . . . bulletin boards" for the White House.
Johnson, a British journalist, finds a certain grim justice in that.
For 20 years, American presidents...
Michael Novak, in TheNew York Times Magazine (Oct. 21, 1984), 229 West 43rd
Latin-Style St., New York, N.Y. 10036.
Fourteen years ago, a little-known Peruvian priest named Gustavo Gutierrez published his book, A Theology of Liberation.Today, the doc- trine it inaugurated is controversial enough to provoke Pope John Paul 11's anger and to garner front-page stories in U.S. newspapers.
Novak, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, traces the roots of liberation theology back to...
James The Apocalypse H. Moorhead, Journal of American History
(Dec. 19841. Ballantine Hall. Indiana Uni-
versity, ~lkomin~ton, Ind. 47405.
Amid the numerous religious revivals of the early 19th century, Amer- ica's Protestants turned toward a new "postmillennial" theology.
Many earlier Protestants had held that the Apocalypse and Second Coming would be followed the millennium, a 1,000-year-long earthly paradise. The postmillennialists reversed the order: The millen- nium would precede...