PERIODICALS
ECONOMICS, LABOR, & BUSINESS
"Keynes, Roosevelt, and the Complemen- What FDR Saw tary Revolutions" John Kenneth Gal- braith, in challenge"(Jan.-Feb. 1984), 80 In Keynesianism Business Park Dr., Armonk, N.Y.10504.
The past two years brought the centennials of the birth of Franklin De- lano Roosevelt (1982) and of John Maynard Keynes (1983), who to- gether transformed American economic thought and public policy. Yet the two men did not see eye-to-eye on the revolution...
the state were earning 20 percent less than men in "comparable" jobs.
Willis now recoils at the thought that his or anybody else's scorecard should become law, Cowley reports. He adds, "Maintaining a standard as vague as "worth" could make quantum mechanics look simple." The Wil- lis scale requires assigning each job a score based on skills required, men- tal demands, and working conditions. A clerk-typist might be classified as a "C1N 106 C2-f 23 C1N 23 L1A 0,"...
Paul E. Peterson, in The Brookings Review (Winter 1983), 1775Schools' Woes Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20036.
Last year, President Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education warned of a "rising tide of mediocrity" in the nation's schools. A host of other task forces soon echoed the dire news [see "Teaching in America," WQ, New Year's 19841. But according to Peter- son, a Brookings Institution political scientist, all the hoopla concealed the fact...
Paul E. Peterson, in The Brookings Review (Winter 1983), 1775Schools' Woes Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20036.
Last year, President Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education warned of a "rising tide of mediocrity" in the nation's schools. A host of other task forces soon echoed the dire news [see "Teaching in America," WQ, New Year's 19841. But according to Peter- son, a Brookings Institution political scientist, all the hoopla concealed the fact...
the authors' calculations, the new school enrollment rates account for 39 percent of the increase in the black-white employment differential.
Military enlistment patterns have also changed. Since the early 1970s, black enlistment rates have topped white rates, reversing the historic pattern. Nearly 15 percent of 20-to-23-year-old black men, but just over five percent of their white peers, were in uniform in 1981.
Because military personnel were not until recently counted as part of the U.S. work...
Nathan Glazer, in The New York Times Book Review (Feb. 26, 1984), Intellectuals P.O. Box 508, Hackensack, N.J. 07602.
From the 1930s to the 1950s, a small band of intellectuals in New York City hotly debated questions that nobody else cared about in obscure magazines that nobody else read. Today, some of those writers, while not household names, informally advise presidents and enjoy the status of minor media celebrities.
Glazer, a Harvard sociologist, is an alumnus of the New York world populated...
Nathan Glazer, in The New York Times Book Review (Feb. 26, 1984), Intellectuals P.O. Box 508, Hackensack, N.J. 07602.
From the 1930s to the 1950s, a small band of intellectuals in New York City hotly debated questions that nobody else cared about in obscure magazines that nobody else read. Today, some of those writers, while not household names, informally advise presidents and enjoy the status of minor media celebrities.
Glazer, a Harvard sociologist, is an alumnus of the New York world populated...
the social problems that might accom- pany a larger elderly population-greater numbers of invalids, more costly health and retirement programs, the development of a gerontoc- racy. Longevity would increase only over the course of decades, leaving plenty of time to make the necessary adjustments.
Medawar worries that unnecessary fears will deter us from pursuing life-extending research. As an antidote, he proposes that a small group of volunteers be the first to try life artificially prolonged to...
stripping parents of their authority and encouraging lawsuits their offspring, might make families just that.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
"The New Prohibitionists" by Stanton Abstinence Is Peele, in The Sciences (Mar.-Apr. 1984), Not the Answer P.O. Box 356, Martinsville, N.J. 08836.
"I am an alcoholic," Alcoholics Anonymous members ritually declare, "I cannot drink." That is the common view in the United States: Alco- holism is a disease, and abstinence is the onl...
Arthur F. Scott, in Scientific American (Jan. 1984),
Man's First Flight P.0.Box 5969, New York, N.Y. 10017.
On November 21, 1783, the first men ever to fly without tethers to the ground went aloft in a hot-air balloon over Paris. The featwas the work of two paper manufacturers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Mont- golfier, who were encouraged by-and woefully misinformed about -recent breakthroughs in chemistry.
The two revolutionary developments of the day were the overthrow of the phlogiston...