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Besides the essay, Singer read an amusing short story about a successful Yiddish writer in America. The writer only knew a handful of English words, but he was able to bribe enough critics to become rich...
James Cash Penney's first venture as a retail proprietor-a butchershop in Longmont, Colo.-opened in 1899 and failed almost immediately, after he refused to bribe an important local hotel chef with a weekly bottle of bourbon. "I lost everything I had," said Penney, "but I learned never to compromise...
...make a new world," an Italian envoy reported, meaning a world in which Louis, not the dukes, was boss. To make it he sometimes used force, if possible someone else's (the obdurate Swiss won several crucial battles for him). Nearly always he preferred to bargain or bribe. Overconfidence in his talking powers sometimes got him into trouble. But because he knew his opponents better than they knew themselves, he generally came out ahead. He dealt with Edward IV's invasion by conning him into withdrawing his troops. "My father drove them out by force of arms," Louis...
...will answer the educational needs of our children in future years. Hopefully Harvard's next president will be a man ready to take the leadership in making radical changes. Hopefully the faculty and administration will be open to constructive ideas from the alumni, and closed, no matter what the bribe, to the destructive tirades of those few who are against children. And hopefully those tight little academic circles can be expanded to include the real world, and the whole mind, that many of us are aware of in this year...
From the Top. What's to be done? Nothing in the mass. Individuals, small groups or communities must "nibble at the edges of the power structure by breaking down routine and defying regulations." Individuals must summon the courage to renounce the bribe of the welfare state and demand more "continent production"-in other words a slower rate of economic output, a goal now being considered for the first time by economists. Mumford hopes the new continence will slowly infiltrate and change the organs of the state just as Christianity transformed Roman society...