Word: abjection
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...taken for granted, self-seeking politicians underwrite featherbedding to win votes from powerful unions, and then seek out economists to provide scholarly excuses. Says Brazil's Juvenal Osório Gomes, a government economist: "Only a violently capitalistic regime without any social sentiment would threaten workers with the abject misery of having to look for a job and not finding it. Brazil is not violently capitalistic and never will...
...Union of Soviet Writers last month addressed itself almost exclusively to destroying the cult of Evtushenko. In all, close to 40 tame authors trooped monotonously forward to denounce Evtushenko and other liberal young writers for offenses ranging from bad rhymes to "sacrilegious statements" about the Revolution. Though Evtushenko made abject apologies for his "irrevocable mistake.'' the drumfire of criticism only grew louder and more insistent...
...struggle that began with the U.S. blockade of Cuba is far from over. But the U.S. took a firm stand and the Russians retreated with abject haste. That fact will be felt on every cold war battleground. At any number of points, Khrushchev can, of course, try to reverse his initial retreat by a counterblow, but any possible move will be harder for him than before the Cuban adventure...
...govern. Last week, for the first time, he finally won the support of a virtually united, confident Labor Party. But he did so by taking a shortsighted, narrow-minded stand on the vital issue of British entry into the Common Market-a stand that ranges Gaitskell alongside the most abject left-wingers in his own party and the most bullheaded jingoists on the Tory side. As he prepared to lead his party into a general election that may be less than a year away, it looked as if Labor had already forfeited its chance-if not its right-to return...
...five men in the dock would probably have tangled with the law sooner or later. (A sixth defendant is still at large.) What made the case fascinating in France was that the five were drawn almost inevitably to the S.A.O. and its paranoiac delusions of glory from similarly abject backgrounds: broken homes, army service in Algeria, feckless drifting from job to job. In the dock they seemed almost a composite of the S.A.O. mentality. The lineup...