Michael Reforming EPA Gruber, in EPA Journal (Nov./Dec. 1988), Superintendent of Documents, GPO, Washington, D.C. 20402.
On April 22, 1970, millions of Americans celebrated the nation's first Earth Day- and within three years Congress had cre- ated the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and passed sweeping new anti-pollution laws.
Today, writes Gruber, an EPA staffer, there is not only public disappointment with the results but a "widening gap" be- tween what Americans expect...
Michael Reforming EPA Gruber, in EPA Journal (Nov./Dec. 1988), Superintendent of Documents, GPO, Washington, D.C. 20402.
On April 22, 1970, millions of Americans celebrated the nation's first Earth Day- and within three years Congress had cre- ated the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and passed sweeping new anti-pollution laws.
Today, writes Gruber, an EPA staffer, there is not only public disappointment with the results but a "widening gap" be- tween what Americans expect...
the arsenic and mercury then used in taxidermy, Lloyd notes-Charles had given up taxidermy to avoid what he suspected were the ill effects.
Raphaelle took the job to please his fa- ther. But he began drinking, small quanti- ties at first, to ease the pain and other ills caused the toxic chemicals. His paint- ing faltered. His father chastized him for "high living and drink," and even went so far as to publish a pamphlet containing thinly-veiled criticisms of his son.
Raphaelle died,...
the early 20th century, however, many critics had soured on him, dismissing him as a mere children's writer.
What is to be made of Stevenson's ca- reer? "Given all that he had to overcome to achieve what he did," says Epstein, who teaches at Northwestern, "there is simply no setting aside his life." And yet, he con- cludes, Stevenson "was the literary equiva- lent of the decathlon athlete: competing in 10 difficult events yet holding world records in none." Writing...
John Vickers and Vincent Wright, in West EL~J-In Europe pean Politics (Oct. 1988), Gainsborough House, 11 Gainsbor-
ough Rd., London El 1 1RS England.
From London to Lisbon and Rome, West- ern Europe's political leaders have been putting more and more government-owned enterprises on the auction block during the 1980s. "Privatization" has "swept the world," exults Britain's Conser- vative finance minister, Nigel Lawson.
Yet, Vickers and Wright, both British scholars, note that...
John Vickers and Vincent Wright, in West EL~J-In Europe pean Politics (Oct. 1988), Gainsborough House, 11 Gainsbor-
ough Rd., London El 1 1RS England.
From London to Lisbon and Rome, West- ern Europe's political leaders have been putting more and more government-owned enterprises on the auction block during the 1980s. "Privatization" has "swept the world," exults Britain's Conser- vative finance minister, Nigel Lawson.
Yet, Vickers and Wright, both British scholars, note that...
Michael C. Hudson, Middle East Studies Asso-
ciation Bulletin (Dec. 1988), Dept. of Oriental Studies, Univer-
sity of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. 85721.
Nothing suggests that the young Moslem nations of the Middle East are on the verge of becoming Western-style democracies. Since the mid-1950s, the mukhabarat (authoritarian) regime has remained the norm-notably in Iraq, Syria, Saudi Ara- bia, and the Persian Gulf monarchies.
However, says Hudson, a Georgetown Arabist, Americans should not ignore...
John Mueller, in Public Opinion Quarterly (Spring 1988), Univ. of Chicago Press, PO. Box 37005, Chicago, 111. 60637.
As the 1988 campaign progresses, one trend seems clear: Americans are far more tolerant of the opinions of others than they were in the past.
Mueller, a political scientist at the University of Rochester, believes that Americans have become more willing to listen to extreme left-wing groups, and have not increased their distaste for any political group or opinion. Since the 1950s,...
Robert Nisbet, in Chronicles (June 1988), Rockford Institute, 934 North Main St., Rock-ford, Dl. 61103.
When did the federal government begin to be the center of American life? The answer, says Nisbet, an emeritus professor at Columbia University: World War I. While the economic effects of the war were small in the United States, the resulting intellectual changes were vast.
Before 1917, the United States had the "most decentralized" govem-
ment in the West. But upon America's entry...
the Wilsonian moral crusade to "make the world safe for democracy," sought new domestic campaigns. Led philosopher John Dewey, New Republic editor Herbert Croly, and The Nation's Os-wald Garrison Villard, these thinkers each began what Dewey called a "search for the Great Community." If America could unite in war, they argued, why could it not become a national community in an era of peace? The efforts of 1920s intellectuals and novelists dovetailed. While intel-
lectuals invoked...