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...reversing that economic process, we might well bring about a situation in which a status society could be re-achieved. One of the most desirable features of such a society would be a peasantry, in addition to a sturdy yeomanry. On the other hand, those who would "amass fortunes" as a result of the proposed amendment might well be granted titles of nobility and could become rural squires, exercising a benevolent authority over their beloved peasantry. Add to this the "mythology of rustics, beggars, and the like," and the imagination traverses the years to a new America of which even...
...financial terms, the reduced tax-bite will once again allow us amass fortunes (we assume it will be "us" rather than "those"). But the main and most beneficial aspect of the amendment is that it will give American society what it has never possessed, or at least has never had a sufficient number of--a peasantry. For if the rich don't pay graduated taxes, the masses will have to pay more, and that should not only push down the rising middle classes, but will certainly so lower the lower class that it will actually become quaint...
Last year, Manhattan nipped the Wildcats, while the varsity finished well back in the field. A fourth place finish by the mile relay team were the only points the varsity could amass...
...game isolates its two contestants in glass-walled booths. Each tries to amass 21 points by answering questions in categories over which he has no choice. The questions are worth from one to eleven points according to difficulty, and by picking the number, he can choose how hard a question he wants (Van Doren's frequent strategy is to pick the tough 10-and 11-point questions and go for a quick 21). At the end of the second round, either contestant can stop the game if he thinks he is ahead. The winner gets $500 a point...
Kwakiutl chief once explained. Warriors, squaws and children worked feverishly to amass a sufficiently impressive array of gifts to "put down" a competitor at the next potlatch. Materials were close at hand: spruce and cedar for the elaborate carved totems and 60-man canoes, horn for spoons and charms, root fibers for baskets, and mountain-goat wool for blankets. Today the brightly colored wood carvings still bear rough adze marks, but they rank high as primitive art, ranging in style from naturalism to symbolic abstraction (see Color Pages). As demonstrated in the permanent collection of Oregon's Portland...