Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radio is cheerful and pleasant--a little like Muzak, but a good bit less insulting. Despite its title, "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" is an exciting short adventure story. The movies are exciting, too, and the huge posters you see at intervals not only seem more reasonable in content than American advertisements but more colorful and better designed, too. And all this is without even considering the fact that before 1949 most Chinese had access to hardly any culture. But obviously Orwell's prescription had something of a double edge--and he didn't say everything should be like...
...intervening years, with the shrinkage of the dollars in my pockets, I've been forced to retrench on even these essential commodities. I've learned to be content with the monthly or so addition to my stereo collection, and the last airplane I took was a year ago Thanksgiving. I've cut back on books. My once voluntary, compulsive identification with the world's needy has become compulsory. My asceticism is now nothing more romantic than a mundane tightening of the belt...
Some other cities are learning to cope with unemployment at or close to 10%; among them are San Diego, hit hard by the collapse in construction; and Elkhart, Ind., whose mobile-home manufacturing industry has slowed down sharply. While New York City agonizes over its 7.4% unemployment, Seattle is content with its 6.9% because 15% of its aircraft-centered labor force was out of work in the 1969-70 recession. Chicago and Cleveland, both diversified with several still healthy industries, including steel and heavy machinery, are skating by the slump with less than 5% joblessness-though even in Chicago, unemployment...
...naked man is rolling about in the mire. The deeper he sinks, the greater the crowd's pleasure. A few thousand people now mill about this shallow, bowl-like dip of land, waiting for another victim, throwing empty cans of beer at each other. For the present they must content themselves with stoning the engine of an already charred hulk. Here there is no real audience. If you are not throwing rocks or Molotov cocktails, you are providing the impetus to do so. This community-sanctioned violence is a Macho Proving Ground. When a group of men can't flip...
...response to the article on Greek students which appeared in the Harvard Crimson of November 13. Reading it was not a very pleasant experience. My objection stems from the probably well intended effort of its writer to make his article interesting by giving it a controversial, perhaps scandalous, content. The article describes Greek students by classifying them in two extreme contradictory categories: future revolutionaries or future cadres of imperialism. It says they form "the most political student group in Cambridge," "they are generally rich" and are occupied by the dilemma whether "Greece should ally with Russia...