Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beautiful Name. Every Frenchman, rich or poor, peasant or city dweller, would feel the effect. Without food subsidies the price of bread would rise 6%, milk 5%, macaroni 10%. Without government subsidies to nationalized industries cigarettes, coal, electricity and train tickets would be more expensive. For all veterans, except those over 65 or with more than 50% disability, there would be no more pensions. ("This is to give new value to the beautiful name of veteran," enthused Veterans Minister Edmond Michelet.) For farmers there would be no more subsidies for the planting of olive trees, and there would be higher...
Hungary, which also freed its farmers from collectives at the time of the 1956 revolution, has lured more of them back. Partly, in the melancholy wake of the Soviet suppression, Hungarians feel resigned to getting along with their Communist masters. By boosting Hungary's investment in agriculture and by funneling two-thirds of the funds straight into the collective farms, Communist Boss Janos Kadar has managed to bring roughly 17% of Hungary's land and peasants once more under collectivization. But it is slow going, and Hungary remains, after Poland, the most "hesitant" Soviet-bloc country in socializing...
Facing ten days in jail, Columnist Torre, wife of TV Producer Hal Friedman and mother of two small children, was philosophical. "I don't feel brave about it," she said. "But it's just easier to serve the period of detention than go for the rest of my life having something like this on my conscience. I would be betraying my entire profession if I revealed my source." Why did not the CBS spokesman come forward now and give her the right to reveal his name? Said she: "The guy could lose his job." There was some comfort...
...triumphs of democratic, middle-class civilization is that anybody can be a snob about practically anybody else. In darker ages, one man's ability to make another man feel like an ignorant peasant was thought to be an inborn talent of the aristocracy. Nowadays, anyone can learn the trick, and there is no better instructor than Britain's Stephen Potter, a kind of arsenical Dale Carnegie and master planner of social insecurity...
...brilliant theories about how to be always one up on everyone through such ploys as the Canterbury Block* and Cogg-Willoughby's Anti-Suntan Gambit.† Potter's latest does not reach these heights, but there is highly useful advice on how to make cribside visitors feel like germ carriers, how to write an autobiography though nothing has ever happened in one's life, and how to devastate an author in a book review ("If you don't know what it's all about by Page 12, it is perfectly fair to say that...