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...city income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes and "sin" taxes on liquor and cigarettes. Between 1960 and 1970, the tax burden on each American man, woman and child almost doubled, from $711 to $1,348. Many Americans, worried about just what will be taxed next, could echo the Beatles' song, Taxman...
...aftermath of earthquake, the community drew solidly together: out of the wreckage of the Barbary Coast grew a city sophisticated by disaster, as elegant and corrupt as the lost metropolises of the East. Others, wandering into the rich central valleys just off the coast, felt an echo of what was lost to them--the fertile plains of the nation's heartland. They scooped up the dark loamy earth, letting it run through their fingers, they drew deep lungfuls of the jasmine-scented air, they looked long on the green velvet of the hills, the gold velvet of the fields...
Miller's personal contributions, besides the taped comments, are the captions and his set of voluptuously reproduced amateur watercolors which he comments upon at unwarranted length. His captions are often puerile, and in one instance echo with racist overtones...
...spoke directly about the people and issues of his day, from World War I to Mussolini to the Dust Bowl. Many of his jokes still hit home. When Whitmore says, "You all know the best place for a political convention--Chicago, of course," Rogers' words are not just an echo from 1920. Even more apt are his statements on American gunboat diplomacy: "So, we set out helping the world. We will send Marines to any nation that can get ten people to ask us. We're in the humanity business. Look folks, if we had any morals...
...most popular choice is marriage. "On being married," Kaufmann writes, "millions of women echo Ruth's beautiful words in the Bible: 'Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.' Henceforth they will make no more fateful decisions; they will leave that to their husbands." For men as well as women, marriage is sometimes only a way of avoiding lonely choices. If joint decisions turn out badly, neither partner need feel responsible; each can claim that, left to his own devices, he might have acted differently. In other cases, marital partners make no decisions...