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...freedom, placidly accepted the status quo. Whispers a worker: "We get along on $40 a month, plus C.U.-the initials of co ukradnete (what you can steal). This cheating, chiefly from government warehouses or government stores, and what the regime calls hooliganism" are the only emotional outlets. Teen-agers annoy old ladies in movies, wind up hard-drinking rock-'n'-roll sessions by jeering at, sometimes battling, cops in the street. The stirrings of intellectuals and the riots of youths have flowered into rebellion in Hungary and a fight for freedom in Poland. But Czechs, subject to foreigners...
...classmate called him "foulmouthed," and another referred to him as that "sarcastic bastard." (O'Neill in later years, used to tell of his habit of blaspheming like a sailor, simply to annoy a number of fastidious youths of the class who were easily shocked...
...foreseeable future, the prospects for a tax-ceiling amendment are nil (even aside from the fact that at least seven of the 33 legislatures later canceled their memorials). Most members of Congress are well aware that, while it might make economic sense, drastic income-tax limitation would 1) annoy a lot of voters as a gift to the more highly paid, and 2) cost the Federal Government an indispensable slice of its income. Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, a McKinley Republican, has dropped a tax-limitation bill into the Senate hopper, but the proposal is sleeping soundly, and only...
Bigger Than Life (20th Century-Fox) is the story of a medical case history wildly sensationalized with an eye for box-office returns. It will predictably outrage an army of doctors, frighten thousands of patients, and justifiably annoy drug manufacturers. The medical mischance it purports to describe was always rare, is now almost obsolete. The whole story is only remotely faithful to its original, one of The New Yorker's "Annals of Medicine" articles, a sober, sound piece by Writer Berton Roueche that was titled "Ten Feet Tall...
...price for freedom. Austria pledged the Russians that it would remain "neutral." Chancellor Julius Raab argued that this meant not only military neutrality but also "ideological neutrality," and ordered the Austrian press and radio not to say anything that might annoy the Communists. If everybody spoke the Communists fair, he argued, the Russians might scale down the reparations exacted under the state treaty. Raab carried this notion so far that a commentator was cut off the government-controlled radio for giving a mildly pro-Western account of the Geneva Conference...