The Age of Insatiability and the New Millionaire Mind
Russell Baker argues that cultural appetite has grown insatiable across media and vice, from cinema and drugs to weapons and literature. The essay traces a shift from past thresholds of enough to a present hunger for more, powered by Wall Street excess and a saturating culture.
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New York
Shakespeare
Sweet Stallone
Pentagon
Berlin
London
Cloudland
Miami
Anthony Adverse
Stallone
Letters to the County Board Highlights Pay and Policies
A reader defends high board salaries and per meeting pay for various county bodies, lists exact monthly and per meeting figures for the chairman and others, and argues the board’s compensation reflects part-time service while noting objections from critics. Other letters address concerns about cruising in Princeton, gratitude to performers, clarification that Hills Department Store plans to stay, and a tribute to Lashmeet Elementary’s music director Mr. Allen Kade.
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Tazewell County Board of Supervisors
Board of Supervisors
Public Service Authority Board
Cumberland Plateau Planning District Board
County Planning Commission
Human Services Board
Tazewell County
Editorial condemns Bluefield Hospital for withholding AIDS death
The Bluefield Community Hospital is harshly criticized for withholding public information about an AIDS death, arguing the public has a right to know. The piece cites Public Health Service projections on AIDS fatalities and costs, urging policy change and transparency from the hospital.
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Bluefield Community Hospital
Mercer County
Public Health Service
Terry Jones
Bluefield
The
Health Service
Hart’s 21st century foreign policy framework debated
George Will notes Gary Hart’s three phase view of U S foreign policy and his call for a fourth “enlightened engagement” while criticizing Hart’s portrayal of Democrats, McGovern era shifts, and his stance on arms control and Nicaragua. Will reviews Hart’s framing as intellectually ambitious yet contentious.
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Washington
Gary Hart
Hart
America
Democratic Party
Woodrow Wilson
FDR
Europe
Truman
Berlin
Greece
Kennedy
Johnson
U.S
Indochina
GOP
McGovern
New York
Walter Mondale
Mondale
Honduras
Moscow
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Nicaragua
Castro
Reagan
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Bluefield College
Melody Bowen
Garret Mathews
Daily Telegraph
Ruby Carlton
Bluefield, Va
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Blue-Prince Plaza
Hills
Mercer
Pete Flanagan
Hills Dept
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Mr. Kade
Lashmeet Elementary School
Allen Kade
Lashmeet Elementary
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Linda C. Farmer Lashmeet
Bill Casey
CIA
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Editorial
George Will
Washington Post Writers Group
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