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Corporate Prosperity. "And what about this great prosperity-this repetitious chant which is being drummed into the minds of the American people? Is there prosperity for the small businessman who, in greater number every day, is forced into bankruptcy or swallowed up in monopoly mergers? Is there prosperity for the white-collar worker whose fixed salary makes it increasingly difficult for him to make ends meet? Is there prosperity for the American farmer...
...Behind him came Nikita Khrushchev and waggled a light straw hat. A wave of onlookers broke over steel barricades and had to be beaten back by police swinging steel-tipped staves. Garlands formed nooses about the necks of the visitors, and an aimless cheer resolved itself into an intelligible chant, "Nehru! Bulganin! Khrushchev!" The celebrities chatted. Nehru had heard that Bulganin wears a bulletproof vest in public appearances. "I do not," said Bulganin. "Feel me." Nehru good-naturedly poked an inquiring finger at the Russian's chest. Then Bulganin turned to the crowd and raised his hands high...
...representing some 13 church groups has descended on the King County jail, intent on saving the souls of its captive audience. The evangelists never bothered to ask the prisoners whether they wanted the services, and many inmates openly grumbled about them. "Here come the Jesus Jazzers," became a weekly chant...
...greying, bearlike Monsignor Fernand Maillet, 59, they bubbled with lighthearted precision in such frolics as Frère Jacques and Alouette, brilliantly worked their way through a difficult cantata written for them by Darius Milhaud, and spun out an incredibly pure, otherworldly tone in the age-old Gregorian chant, Tenebrae Factae Sunt...
...rough cowl of a Benedictine monk, and the Marquise will forsake her finery for the simple habit of the Little Sisters of the Ascension. In a monastery in central France, he will till the land with his brother monks, eat the simplest of foods, rise at night to chant the office. She will nurse the sick and aid the poor in parts of Paris where on past visits her limousine never brought her. They will never see each other again...