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...likely to complain of "a poisoning, a noseache, an eye-pain or quinsy," followed by a plaintive "Must I undress?" The best remedy may be fresh air. How about a tour of an American farm? The Russian is naturally interested in the workings of the capitalist agricultural system. "Is this a private windmill?" he asks. "What are the peasants in the county chiefly preoccupied with...
...Italian Publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli once told a friend -and he disconcerted almost everyone. Born into one of Milan's wealthiest families, he was an avowed Socialist at the age of 20 and two years later became a Communist. But Feltrinelli scored his only real success as a capitalist publisher. In 1957 he smuggled the manuscript of Doctor Zhivago out of Russia, and published it in defiance of intense Soviet and local party pressures. After the Zhivago furor, Feltrinelli drifted further leftward, becoming a financial angel of Italy's militant Maoists and publishing a revolutionary magazine called Tricontinental. When...
...total, the Chinese showed that it might still be possible for a socialist country to establish a detente with the capitalist enemy without selling out its allies in the process. For America a quick trip to Peking or a couple of new alliances will not solve our deep domestic and international problems. While Nixon might have gotten himself a better shot at reelection, he was pushing cosmetics and the Chinese knew it. But at least he proved that he can sell even that to the American public...
...Portugese have realized that they cannot maintain their colony on their own, and have enticed American capital and foreign exchange. They have been quite cunning in manipulating capitalist corporations and governments to mutually-beneficial deals. When, during the United Nations outcry that followed the slaughter in 1961, the United States voted for a resolution condemning Portugal, the Portugese threatened to withdraw American rights to the highly strategic Azores Islands. By the next year the United States had judiciously reversed its vote of censure, and was supplying the Portugese military with needed arms...
...life of the bohemians after the Lost Generation had already boarded the boat back to America. Miller was born in the same golden decade as Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But while all the others lived the life fantastic, he was enduring a worklife right in the belly of the capitalist whale, the Grand Hirer and Firer for the Cosmodemonic Company. Miller came to his expatriation and the realization that his destiny was as an artist when he was just on the verge of turning forty...