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...officials, and a new proletariat which is poorer and bigger than the old. Certainly there has been much construction and some land has been reclaimed. But the price is a subhuman standard of truth living, an and infinite falsehood, a dreariness, social an system inability in to which the distinguish two worst between crimes are to worship God and to say no to the state...
...achieve solvency: let each farmer in the country around Florence select the most promising chick in his flock, raise it carefully until ready for marketing, and remit the proceeds to the party exchequer. While the choice Communist chick is being fattened, added Gino brightly, it might be nice to distinguish it from its leaner non-Communist brethren by tying around its neck a bright red ribbon...
...quivered constantly, picking up odors that most people could not smell at all. Odors were his great passion. During his New Orleans period, he translated every article he could find in French periodicals on odors, wrote innumerable essays of his own. In one of them he claimed he could distinguish between octoroons, quadroons and pure-blooded Africans by his sense of smell...
...abstract or morbid art in . . . the Peronista doctrine, for Peronismo is a doctrine of love, of perfection, of altruism, which soars with a superhuman quality into the skies. Peronismo is a doctrine of the virtues of a people . . . who know what is beautiful and what is ugly, who can distinguish . . . the natural from the unnatural, the living from the cadaverous...
...serving in the state senate, complained about the potash industry's "free ride" until the legislature tripled its taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue (and Democratic political boss) Victor Salazar, "the second-floor governor"-is a political byword in the state. Chunky, fast-moving Will Harrison does his own legwork...