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To enforce discipline and assure permanent control, the party sows the land with 3,000,000 paid propagandists and 3,000,000 "inspectors." Even its spies have spies. Against this party apparatus, the government itself counts merely as a pro forma showcase structure existing only to do the party'...
The scene was worthy of Daumier's pen. Discreetly dressed bourgeois bid ders hid all signs of buying fever, ex cept for a lady who offered $1,600 for a charcoal drawing, Buffoon and His Monkey, in a Landscape, then protested that she did not mean to get that...
Top bid was $67,551 for a plaster caricature of an imaginary middle-class know-nothing called Ratapoil. Next highest was $59,591 for a life-size plas ter bust executed around 1855 of Dau mier himself, complete down to the wrinkles and warts. Bidding for the 14 drawings was...
Experience at Home. The builders got their experience 15 years ago in Italy, which was then a developing nation itself in need of dams and bridges in the north and land-reclamation projects in the south. Gaining knowledge and also running out of contracts at home, the Italians began bidding...
The conflict is inevitable and it will persist. But it is a complicated struggle. The rising rents mean displacement for some Cambridge residents, but larger incomes for others. And if the high-bidding Harvard real estate agents insure that the University will expand its perimeter, they also assure many Cambridge...