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...family paid for him to go to school, though his official biography now disguises his unproletarian origin. Bulganin. aged 22, joined the party as an organizer a few crucial months before the Revolution, is thus one of the few old Bolsheviks still in high places. Assigned to the dread CHEKA during the bloody civil war. he showed so much efficiency in jailing and executing the "People's enemies." and in putting down a workers' revolt in his old home town, that Stalin called him to Moscow. He knew nothing about business management...
...tells the story, wittily and well, by putting the problem of ethics on a kind of analyst's couch and dredging up its troubled case history. The childhood of ethics, in the Russell view, is taboo. Taboo morality is a strict black-and-white affair filled with dread and sanctions, the ethics of primitive...
Looking at things from the other fellow's point of view, bell-ringers Harold Allen and Harry King, who will soon be losing their titles, need no longer live in dread of forgetting their daily chores...
...following day. It was the usual attempt to equate anti-McCarthyism with pro-Communism-but this was the first time McCarthy had tried that line on such recognized conservatives as the members of the Watkins Committee. Said he: "I would have the American people recognize, and contemplate in dread, the fact that the Communist Party -a relatively small group of deadly conspirators-has now extended its tentacles to that most respected of American bodies, the U.S. Senate; that it has made a committee of the Senate its unwitting handmaiden...
...worst time of all came when Runyon worked on one of his gay little stories. He was an agony writer, suffering torment over every painfully minted wisecrack. The household suffered with him, paralyzed into a dread silence...