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...
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...
the movement of molten iron-itself magnetized billions of years ago the sun or some other celestial body-thousands of miles beneath the planet's surface. As the liquid metal rises, it gradually cools and begins sinking back toward the Earth's core, creating "eddies" some 100 miles in diameter. There may be as many as 50 of them. The rotation of the Earth on its axis makes most (but not all) of the eddies point either north or south. "The net direction of the magnetic field,"...
Haydn Bush, in Science 84 (Sept. 1984), P.O. Box 3207, Harlan, Iowa
To judge press releases and newspaper headlines, the cure rate for cancer has been improving steadily for years. Actually, writes Bush, di- rector of the London Regional Cancer Centre in Canada, "we're not cur- ing much more cancer than we were a generation ago."
Doctors can claim real progress in effecting cures for a few relatively rare cancers (e.g., childhood leukemia, Hodgkin's disease) but for only two of the more...
Haydn Bush, in Science 84 (Sept. 1984), P.O. Box 3207, Harlan, Iowa
To judge press releases and newspaper headlines, the cure rate for cancer has been improving steadily for years. Actually, writes Bush, di- rector of the London Regional Cancer Centre in Canada, "we're not cur- ing much more cancer than we were a generation ago."
Doctors can claim real progress in effecting cures for a few relatively rare cancers (e.g., childhood leukemia, Hodgkin's disease) but for only two of the more...
the year 2100. Ironically, the very fact that the greenhouse effect is a global problem militates against cutbacks in fuel use simply to reduce C02: Individual nations would bear the costs of conservation while all would share in the benefits. And for many poorer nations, such as Bangladesh, there are a number of more press- ing needs than combating the greenhouse effect.
Mankind may be only decades away from being able to engineer a kind of global countercooling, chiefly means of releasing into...
? mdAmiqm (Oct. 1984, PO. Box 20600,
Bergenfield, N.J. 07621.
Jackson Pollock's famed "drip" paintings have hung in museums across the United States for several decades now. Yet, many viewers undoubtedly still ask themselves whether a five-year-old child armed with a few cans of paint might not have done as well as the founder of abstract expressionism. So Arts and Antiques put the question to 23 prominent artists and intellectuals: "Was Jackson Pollock any good?"
There is...
Jackson Pollock, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution.
"Scholarship versus Culture" Jacques
Barzun, in The Atlantic Monthly (Nov.
1984), Box 2547, Boulder, Colo. 80322.
More artifacts of culture are being created, unearthed, collected, classi-
fied, exhibited, and analyzed nowadays than at any time in human his-
tory. Yet, paradoxically, contends Columbia University's Barzun, true
culture itself is in danger of being smothered.
To Barzun, the chief...