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...Maginot outlook," in which strikes are called not so much for higher wages as for preserving some time-honored way of doing a job. A belligerent sense of "them" and "us" still pervades any dispute. "The employing class," as the Amalgamated Engineering Union's initiation rites still assert, has "persecuted, victimized, and always opposed improved labor conditions." And, indeed, to rise from the working class to the managing class is still almost unthinkable in Britain...
...notion of an entity called Asia is a Western fiction, it is a fiction that many Asians now support-to assert unity against the West. In South Viet Nam recently, a Japanese journalist was taken out on patrol. The Vietnamese captain of the patrol spoke neither Japanese nor English but managed to tell his guest through a U.S. interpreter: "You're an Asian. You can really understand...
...actress play-acting animosity instead of feeling it. As the ambitious young prof whose blueprint for success includes "plowing a few pertinent wives," George Segal exudes callow opportunism assuredly. And Broadway's Sandy Dennis slyly interprets Segal's child bride as a sickly amoeba struggling to assert herself among dragons...
...tell, during the Suez crisis of 1956, which many Britons found darker even than the days of the 1940 Blitz. Angry thousands massed among the pigeons beneath Nelson's glowering statue in Trafalgar Square to protest an aging, ailing Tory Prime Minister's final, futile attempt to assert Britannia's right to rule the waves. That same year produced the first explosive act of rebellion: John Osborne's corrosive drama, Look Back in Anger...
...encouraged to believe that the best way for it to advance its cause, which is a worthy one, is by taking the law into its own hands." Warned Black: "It should be remembered that if one group can take over libraries for one cause, other groups will assert the right to do it for causes which, while wholly legal, may not be so appealing to this court...