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...pattern can be seen as a "checkmate" in which the subject can neither move nor choose not to move without running into contradictory and paradoxical pressures and demands. A husband might suggest, for instance, that his wife spend more time with the children and later implicitly condemn her for this. If the wife is not allowed to question the consistency of his demands, and they persist, confusion and self-doubt push the limits of sanity. A mother might ask her son for a kiss, but her body language and tone of voice tells him she doesn't really want...
...some economists (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons, who supported the G.O.P. in 1972, gave a speech in which he said he was tired of Administration "rhetoric." Ford's critics doubt that his proposed $16 billion tax cut is big enough to stimulate a real recovery and condemn his energy program as adding arbitrary and unnecessary burdens on the already reeling economy. Yet Ford was willing to compromise even as he fought for his program and carefully avoided a fixed position from which he could not retreat...
...system with a hiring hall. Under the labor contractor system, the grower requests a set number of workers, and a contractor selects them on an arbitrary basis. Job security is nonexistent (Gallo fires fifteen to twenty workers a day during peak harvesting time). An official Teamster statement says, 'Teamsters condemn all labor contractor, because they are evil corrupt, immoral, inhuman, and barters of souls and human lives." ("Why Does the Teamsters Union Support the Labor Contractor Rather Than the Hiring Hall?" Publication of the Western Conference of Teamsters, 1973). But their contract has a different ring: "The parties understand...
...Speaking of Watergate, at any point did you condemn Richard Nixon...
...silly to condemn Whitney's stealing, compared to the huge size of the kind of "legal" stealing that goes on all the time; silly to laugh at or pity Whitney's faith in his worthless distilleries when this is the kind of faith so many successful capitalist ventures have been built on. It's only that Whitney demonstrates the last stages of personal disintegration for the capitalist, and may warn us, on a larger scale, of the no-holds-barred rapaciousness combined with childlike faith in the impossible that may surface in American capitalism's coming death-rattle...