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Cause of the strike was a new government law that pegged fixed medical fees under the national health insurance scheme at approximately half the prevailing rate, also extended free care to widows, orphans, the aged, and chronic invalids. Charging that the law was the first step toward socialized medicine, doctors demanded that the government raise fees by about 50% and asked for free time to treat private patients under a separate price structure. When all mediation attempts failed, the doctors hung up their stethoscopes and walked...
...course, is not his real name. He has taken the name and the identification papers of a dead man named Schwarz (who in turn had taken them from another dead man named Schwarz). The obvious implication of this hall-of-mirrors symbolism is that loss of identity is the chronic condition of modern man and that a single name will serve a generation...
...what Béjart did to Faust was something else again. Suppressing his chronic urge to spoon a little musique concrète into the score (out of veneration for Berlioz), Béjart saved himself for the "illustrations"--as he calls his scenes and dance sequences. Gargoyles dance a twist to parody the Last Supper, and the "sons of the Danube" show up in SS uniforms. The corps de ballet wear costumes that come close to perfection in their imitation of nudity, and their dances have an angular brutality. Faust appears as the prisoner of a giant glob...
This program would still function as a substitute for an attack on the underlying problem: how to move the marginal farmer off the land. It makes littles sense to keep him there at a subsistence level. Yet, with chronic excess unemployment in the economy at large, it is reasonable to ask, where...
...when Nikita Khrushchev's risky gamble on the Virgin Lands seemed to be paying off, the Soviet ruler gleefully gibed at Western predictions that his pet scheme for plowing up 100 million acres of marginal land in Siberia and Kazakhstan could never solve Russia's chronic food shortage. "He laughs best who laughs last," chuckled Khrushchev. "So let us laugh at how these sorry forecasters have miscalculated...