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...agriculture-oriented, economic-recovery program that undid much of the chaos of Mao's Great Leap Forward project. Apparently he had some differences with Mao over economic policy. "For the purpose of increasing agricultural production," Teng declared in 1962 in a now notorious phrase, "any by-hook-or-by-crook method can be applied. It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice." At the same time, he also suggested that "the dictatorship be diluted and democracy be expanded," a remark that was later interpreted as a direct challenge...
...should be. The whole burden of Adele's life, complex and important as it is, is summed up in one piece of dialogue. Adele goes to see a British judge whose daughter is engaged to marry the Lieutenant. Adele wants to break up the engagement by hook or crook and tells the judge (who is a good gray man of the world, sympathetic, but without deep reservoirs of passion) that Pinson has seduced and abandoned...
...mostly unfamiliar actors. The judges are straw men in scarlet robes, passing out death sentences like souvenir fountain pens. Their victims are a rag-tag gallery of the common man meant to embody some evergreen liberal shibboleths: the fiery left-wing journalist; the good-humored, faintly ironic petty crook; the humble shopkeeper...
...scatterbrained, starry-eyed blonde comes to Washington with her sugar daddy and dimly perceives that the place is a fen of corruption. She may be dumb in the wiles of this world, but she is not a crook. Ultimately, her innate goodness and the love of an idealistic young man allow her to kick the dust of all those capital shenanigans from her heels. Judy Holliday could have played this part perfectly. In fact, in Born Yesterday...
...were Prime Minister, I would have the strength to stake it all on Christ." When asked instead to reorganize Britain's airlines into a single state-owned corporation, Reith felt slighted. He found it degrading to work under Air Minister Kingsley Wood, whom he described as "a bally crook" and a "little swine." In May 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed him Minister of Transport, but Reith's satisfaction was undermined by bitterness that the more important Aircraft Production Ministry was given to Lord Beaverbrook. "To no one is the vulgar designation shit more appropriately applied...