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...nothing better to do than to set France's hopes for grandeur against the backwardness of her economy. Certainly, he says, there is some validity to most of them. France is a nation of small business, but this does not automatically mean inefficiency in production. Besides, as in most capitalist countries, large companies divide the market in the modern economic sectors. Fraud in tax returns is frequent, but hardly more so than elsewhere. Wages are low, but not significantly lower in terms of purchasing power than those of any other European country. In other words, France usually "resembles the other...
...Socialists have tried to make Yamaguchi one of the top issues in the current Japanese election campaign. They called him a "cat's paw of monopolistic capitalist forces" (by which they meant Premier Hayato Ikeda's ruling Liberal Democrats) and paraded Asanuma's widow about in hope of a sympathy vote. After Yamaguchi's hanged body was found, Saburo Eda, acting chairman of the Socialists, shifted his ground and growled: "The fact that an important criminal was able to commit suicide exposes the utter irresponsibility of the authorities in charge...
...book the conclusion was richly ambiguous. In the film it is merely slick. So is the camera work; but some of the performances are better than that. Gert Frobe, who scored so impressively as a comic capitalist in Rosemary, creates with amazingly few gestures one of the most frightening psychopaths the screen has exhibited in recent years. And Actor Ruhmann, as the inspector, skillfully suggests that somewhere behind his wooden expression there are termites at work...
...turned his brilliant bitterness on the culture generated by that class. "Brecht assumed capitalism within the theater," Bentley points out. "He assumed that it permeated the walls, the seats, and everyone in the audience. But people in the Soviet Union cannot be aware of the values and standards of capitalist culture. So to a large extent Brecht is meaningless to them...
Sarkar believes that the economic gap between the richer and poorer nations of the world has strengthened the strong nationalistic tendencies of underdeveloped nations. Capitalist countries must learn to understand this spirit of the Afro-Asians before there can be peace and prosperity in the world, Sarker warned...