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...
During the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s, Harvard sociologist Carle Zimmerman took a close look at the "American standard of living" and made some startling pre- dictions for the future. In regard to the increased urbaniza- tion, commercialization, and social mobility of that time, Zimmerman wrote: If a standard of living consists of values to be found entirely in the oods which the individual consumes, we shall proba %ly continue our present sensational t pe of life as l...
MONEY Future scholars, using computers to sort the masses of data now being gathered, may, for the first time, be able to write the full story of the fac- tors that determine success or failure in the pursuit of material well-being in America. Such a synthesis would be an invaluable addition to existing ac-counts, some of which are described below, of how Americans earn and spend and change their economic status. Most professional journals and text-books on economics give more attention to growth,...
Reviews of new research public agencies and private institutions 'The State of Academic Science" Based on a Study by the National Science Foundation, Change Magazine Press, NBW Tower, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10801. 250 pp. $5.95. Authors: Bruce L. R. Smith and Joseph J. Karlesky. Academic science retains the declining in several fields (physics, strength and vitality that have made chemistry, mathematics), and some such exceptional contributions to departments-as well as individual America's overall...
ATEGIC ARMS CONTROL
ARMS CONTROL
"THE AMERICAN WAY"
The modern arms control community in the United States was born in the late 1950s. Its family tree exhibited two very dissimilar roots. On the one hand, there was the nuclear- scientific group that had designed the means for mass de-struction and had begun to feel guilty about its technical triumphs; on the other, there was the small but rapidly growing group of "defense intellectuals" who did not feel personally or co...