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...things, snow removal machines, such an attitude seems to take on definite defeatist implications. One might even attribute a philosophy of life to it; but unfortunately the situation is not so simple nor complex as a set of beliefs built around a snow version of the axiom that what goes up must come down. No, the answer is simply that a shortage of labor and equipment exists that cannot be remedied...
...even though the speech was mild (for a Soviet diplomat), it was still based on the infuriating axiom that anything Russia does is manifestly right and good. Molotov denounced U.S.-British "imperialists" as "new claimants to world domination," railed against "dollar democracy" and "money bags," charged (falsely) that the Baruch Plan sought a U.S. monopoly on the atom bomb. He displayed colossal but typical impudence when, as executor of one of the world's most brutal foreign policies, he charged certain circles in the West with using "extreme methods of pressure and violence." His speech was far sharper than...
...keep it vigorous, its files have to be constantly pruned of dead material. For example, although some 600 new names are added to the biography file every month, an equal number of folders whose subjects are no longer of news interest are weeded out - illustrative, perhaps, of a journalistic axiom that it takes a very staunch, or lucky, citizen (in politics, cinema, or elsewhere) to remain newsworthy for a decade...
...sharp-worded, sharp-witted critic George Orwell thus paraphrased the philosophy of the Soviet state: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Last week Russia, which long ago branded equality as "egalitarian" heresy, took another step toward hierarchy. True to Philosopher Yudin's axiom that to preserve the Red Army means to preserve the state, Generalissimo Stalin issued a whip-cracking new set of army regulations. The statutes ordered Red warriors to "respect seniors in command . . . observe strictly military conduct and the salute...
...undersigned was . . . apprehended for speeding. It was Saturday afternoon and the judge . . . was not in the city for the weekend so . . . I wrote a letter to the judge and he fixed bail at $15. Whereupon I wrote another letter and quoted the above axiom and he raised the bail...