IODICALS
Welfare "How Large is the Welfare Class?" by
Martin Rein and Lee Rainwater, in Chal-Dependency lenge (sept.-oct. 1977), 901 North Broad-
way, White Plains, N.Y. 10603.
Many Americans believe that welfare has become a way of life for many of its recipients. But M.I.T. urbanologist Rein and Harvard sociologist Rainwater contend that the "welfare class" is, in fact, rather small.
Using data from the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, the authors followed...
IODICALS
Welfare "How Large is the Welfare Class?" by
Martin Rein and Lee Rainwater, in Chal-Dependency lenge (sept.-oct. 1977), 901 North Broad-
way, White Plains, N.Y. 10603.
Many Americans believe that welfare has become a way of life for many of its recipients. But M.I.T. urbanologist Rein and Harvard sociologist Rainwater contend that the "welfare class" is, in fact, rather small.
Using data from the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, the authors followed...
Carl Salzman, M.D., in American Journal of Electrotherapy Psychiatry (Sept. 1977), 1700 18th st.,
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT), for 40 years an accepted treatment for such disorders as severe depression, suicidal tendencies, and acute insomnia, has sparked a growing ethical debate.
"Though it is neither a panacea nor a sadistic intrusion," writes Har- vard psychiatrist Salzman, the nature of ECT (passing an electric cur- rent through the patient's brain)...
William The Anglophile Dusinberre, in Journal of American Studies (vol.2, no. 2), cambridge Univer- as Anglophobe sity Press, 32 E. 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
Like other Americans of his time (and later), historian-philosopher Henry Adams (1838-1918) left his native land to enhance his personal and intellectual development. One critical period of growth occurred during Adams's seven-year sojourn in England (1861-68) as secretary to his father Charles, then Ambassador to Great Britain. The...
William The Anglophile Dusinberre, in Journal of American Studies (vol.2, no. 2), cambridge Univer- as Anglophobe sity Press, 32 E. 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
Like other Americans of his time (and later), historian-philosopher Henry Adams (1838-1918) left his native land to enhance his personal and intellectual development. One critical period of growth occurred during Adams's seven-year sojourn in England (1861-68) as secretary to his father Charles, then Ambassador to Great Britain. The...
strong lines. Rubens, however, encouraged en- gravers to improve on traditional techniques. Most successful was Lucas Vorsterman (1595-1675), who used fine hatchings, cross-hatchings, and other subtle strokes, to suggest the texture of Rubens's colors, fabrics, and skin tones (as in The Descent from the Cross, above).
Rubens attached great importance to reproductions of his paintings. Prints made his work known to a wider audience, creating greater de- mand and higher prices. He apparently advanced...
contrast, Sartre, immersed in his celebrated "nausea," found life meaningless and made meaninglessness his standard. Were Dante writing today, Gardner suggests, he would be considered "freakish." Modern culture lionizes the artist for his angst, not his wisdom.
Contemporary novelists do little more than toy with moral stand- ards, and when a Norman Mailer calls a Charles Manson "intellectually courageous," the line between morality and escapist fiction begins to blur....
an orgy of diagnostic blundering."
Revolution in "Microelectronics" Robert N. Joyce; "Microelectronics and the Personal Com-
icroelectronics puter" by Alan C. Kay, in ScientificAmer-ican (Sept. 1977), 415 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
It all began 30 years ago with the development of the transistor, a small, low-power electric amplifier that replaced the large, power- hungry vacuum tube. Within the last decade, "microelectronics" has once again revolutionized...
Zhores Medvedev, in New Scien-
ccident in 1958? tist (June 30, 1977), King's Reach Tower,
Stanford St., London SE1 9LS, England.
In 1976, Russian emigre Zhores Medvedev called attention to a Soviet nuclear disaster in the late 1950s caused an explosion of nuclear waste stored in underground shelters. According to Medvedev, the blast contaminated thousands of square miles and caused several hundred deaths in the sparsely populated South Urals region of the U.S.S.R., where the first Soviet military...
comparison."
RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
"Paul VI at Eighty" James V. Schall, S.J., in Worldview (Oct. 1977), P.O. Box 986, Farmingdale, N.Y.11735.
Although the papacy has generally enjoyed high prestige in the 20th century, Pope Paul VI (elected in 1963) has received "an unaccountably bad press," especially from Roman Catholics. Critics have found him contradictory, insensitive, and lacking in leadership. His opposition to birth control has sparked controversy and doubt. B...