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...initiative might remain. Most of all, of course, there is a lack of pay incentive. Under socialism, there is little difference between the wages of skilled and unskilled workers, and almost no difference in pay between the worker who sweats over his machine and the nonworker who would rather flirt with shop girls, chat with colleagues, or take innumerable breaks for coffee, tea, snacks -or rest. Many workers even have their morning papers delivered to the factory, where they can read them with more leisure than at home...
...from Marseilles are a frustrated clerk obsessed with sex, a flirty perfume company representative, a pretty girl leaving home, and a small-time TV actress scared of middle age. An awkward but friendly young stowaway naps briefly in an empty bunk. The train reaches Paris. Someone strangles the flirt after the other passengers have left...
...trick is to be artistic, and occasionally to snap out of it. Most of the pieces in the Advocate do not heighten or clarify what they talk about, nor do they entertain. They either grab the reader by the intellect and dare him to interpret them, or they flirt ambiguously with him. Too often the Advocate's authors "confound obscurity of expression with the expression of obscurity," as Poe put it. A good poem should sound good the first time around -- but it's entirely possible to slide through this whole magazine without being moved or interested enough by anything...
What is the point of a stagehand appearing in the middle of aria who paints the same white patch of scenery she painted in the last scene, again with a dry red brush? If the cast has to flirt with the crew, couldn't they be more convincing--and remember their infatuations in the next...
Tekla is a selfish woman who wants to have her way, to be flattered, to flirt, but never to admit that anything is her fault; a vulgar coquette who must be assured of her charm and virtue. Miss Allen is that exactly. She is infuriating. She radiates stupidity and sick sexuality She justifies every relationship, every line, in the play...