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Which brings us to the present day. The "greasy grinds" have been replaced by pre-meds. The debutantes are old and gray. Communism is dead. But the mentality associated with the "Gentleman's C" persists. As Mansfield puts it, "We've somehow replaced the 'Gentleman's C' with the ungentlemanly...
...express their fury at declining living standards, some 30,000 Polish workers from around the country converged on Warsaw and marched through sleet and snow in one of the largest demonstrations the country has seen since the fall of communism...
...similar way, of course, the bourgeoisie deserved every bashing it took under Soviet communism: After the revolution, the Zhivago family had to retreat to a corner of their Moscow mansion and submit to the insults of the proletariat who moved in to abuse the former masters and break up the furniture for firewood...
...common sense nods off and allows our enemies, not ourselves, to invade and conquer. Pod seeds fall from outer space and rob sleeping humans of their emotions, their very selves. It was Us vs. Them, cold-war style -- and in this cunning parable of persecution, Them could be communism or McCarthyism. It could be any ism bent on robbing the U.S. (Us) of its ragged individualism...
Sachs: There was no shock therapy in Russia. The reformers advocated it, but they never had the political power to implement it. The economic pain has been caused not by shock therapy but by a combination of three other things. First, the pain of communism's collapse, which was there well before the reformers. Second, the incredible inconsistency of policy because reformers have been battling conservatives for two years and have been unable to implement a strong reform program. Third, Western help never came and never helped cushion the change. ((U.S. Deputy Secretary of State)) Strobe Talbott did a terrible...