Four months after Inauguration Day, President Carter invited his party's congressional leadership to the White House for a breakfast-table briefing on the economic policies of the new administration. Charles L. Schultze, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, displayed charts showing that, with full cooperation from business, labor, and consum- ers, it might just be possible to generate enough economic growth to balance the federal budget by 1980, as the President had promised.
Bert Lance,...
a party, the Patriots [Whigs]," D. W. Bro- gan reminds us in his acerbic POLITICS IN AMERICA (Harper, 1954, cloth; 1969, cloth & paper). "It had its origin in party meetings, caucuses* . . .in 'committees of correspondence' linking the party mem- bers from state to state, and it had its governing body in the various Congresses of which the most famous, in 1776, pub- lished the Declaration of Independence. The Founding Fathers . . .knew a great deal about parties and party organiza-...
the collage of styles on the,page opposite. We have seen new influences in the Southern novel and the Jewish novel, the Academic novel, even the nonfiction novel. Here four scholars discuss the American writers-from Saul Bellow to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.-who have gained prominence since World War 11. Earl Rovit describes what these writers have in common. Jerome Klinkowitz ex- plores their uses of humor. Melvin J. Friedman scans the entire postwar period. Tony Tanner, an Englishman, examines the major...
Since the time of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, there have been bold changes in American fiction-as shown by the collage of styles on the,page opposite. We have seen new influences in the Southern novel and the Jewish novel, the Academic novel, even the nonfiction novel. Here four scholars discuss the American writers-from Saul Bellow to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.-who have gained prominence since World War 11. Earl Rovit describes what these writers have in common. Jerome Klinkowitz ex- plores their uses...
DS OF HUMOR
A few years before he won the 1976 Nobel Prize for Litera- ture, Saul Bellow was having a hard time of it as a guest at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb. The two English De- partment professors who were supposed to meet him for dinner hadn't shown up, so he stood by himself in the student union, watching a rerun of "Lost in Space" on the lounge TV while several hundred students milled around, wondering who he was. Two hours later, across town, a couple of graduate stu...
Ever since T. S. Eliot made his famous statement in 1923 that "the novel ended with Flaubert and with James," novelists have frequently been put on the defensive. In 1957, literary critic and novelist Granville Hicks invited 10 American writers to con- tribute to a collection of essays entitled The Living Novel, with a view to asserting the continuing vitality and importance of their craft. To give a boost to their argument, Hicks declared in his Foreword: "There is no substitute...
"What's your idea of who runs things?"
The words are from Saul Bellow's The Victim (1947), but the question is one that in many different forms runs through Amer- ican fiction of the last 30 years.
One of the most important writers who has endeavored to give some sort of fictional outline and metaphorical definition to power and its modes of operation is Norman Mailer. This has taken him from actual political conventions and demonstrations to the technology of moon rockets, the significance...
Dick, in Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia and The Fall of the House of Usher, which were to suggest to many later critics some previously un- perceived connections between 19th-century American writing and the con- cerns of modem fiction.
His timeless reminder to critics-and ordinary readers: "It is hard to hear a new voice, as hard as it is to listen to an unknown language. We just don't listen. There is a new voice in the old American classics. The world has declined to hear it. . . . Why?-Out of...
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"Benefits and Burdens: A Report on the West Bank and Gaza Strip Economies Since 1967"
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 345 E. 46th St., New York N.Y.
10017.164 DR. $3.75 Author: ~riah Van Arkadie
Since Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of the Jordan River after the Six Day War, economic changes have created an improved "new status quo" for the one million native Palestinian Arabs under Israeli control....
PAPERBOUNDS
ETHICS IN MEDICINE: Historical Per- spectives and Contemporary Concerns. Edited by Stanley Joel Reiser, Arthur J. Dyck, and William J. Curran. M.I.T., 1977.679 pp. $19.95 (cloth, $40)
This comprehensive text developed for use in medical courses at Harvard is also a unique sourcebook for lawyers, legis- lators dealing with health plans, and lay citizens. It opens with selections from the Corpus Hippocratium (probably written by Pythagorean philosophers in the 5th to 4th centuries B...