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With a marked improvement in food supplies this spring, the government has mounted a massive "Learn from Lei Feng" propaganda campaign, in an effort to halt what ideologists call the peasants' "spontaneous tendency toward capitalism." To the dismay of enterprising peasants, the government started cutting down on the minute private plots that they have been allowed to cultivate-and to use as a source of independent income. It seemed illogical, since it was the incentive that helped boost farm production in the first place. Nevertheless, in Kiangsi province, Radio Nanchang exhorts daily: "The collective must come before private plots...
Bishop Fred Corson is a graduate (1917) of this college. The editors of our student newspaper here read his comments concerning Rockefeller with great dismay. Constant confusion of men's personal lives with their political lives is indeed a sorry facet of our system...
Kamenev speaks-and is allowed to speak well-for the humanistic religion of man's perfectibility on earth. The Pope speaks for man's spiritual nature. When a correspondence ensues between the two. there is dismay among those who think that the man in the Vatican has weakened in intransigence toward the visible enemy of the church. Peace is the ostensible subject of the Vatican-Kremlin secret exchanges, which are broadened to include the President of the U.S.. known cryptically as "Robert...
...does," said Jack Nicklaus. "And I'm certainly not doing my best." It was the sort of sincere, sensible thing any young man might say if he was just 23 and had practically his whole life ahead of him. But coming from Nicklaus, it sent a surge of dismay through the battle-scarred ranks of golf's professionals. In the space of eleven short months. Jack ("Baby Beef") Nicklaus has won the U.S. Open (prize: $15,000). the World Series of Golf ($50,000), the Seattle Open ($4,300). the Portland Open ($3,500), the Palm Springs Golf...
...Goodman's dismay, literature has followed this same asocial pattern. Fictional characters either accept their social roles and concentrate on their personal lives (James Gould Cozzens), or they withdraw from society and lead the life of the beat, the hip, or the drugged...