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...Herbert observed, "He that has lost his credit is dead to the world." So the U.S. has not quite become the cashless society, but there are some hints of a less than brave new world aborning. For the past three years, a Cornell University faculty dining club has actually forbidden its customers to pay cash. Professors are issued credit cards by the university and must use them in the club or eat somewhere else. The club is run by the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, which apparently wants to train its students for a world in which cash has become...
They are jailed, confined in mental institutions, harassed in a dozen ways, ranging from merely annoying to brutal. But Soviet dissidents call press conferences, circulate forbidden books and manuscripts, bombard Washington, Paris and the Vatican with their protests. As soon as one of their number is arrested, wives, children and friends set up a clamor. Sakharov is almost a tourist attraction in Moscow, and regularly receives foreign newsmen. None of this would have been conceivable under Stalin...
...friends and made their own repairs. For the big factory teams, there were designers and mechanics on call in 40-ft., parts-stuffed support vans. The difference between the amateurs and the pros was evident in other ways; the John Deere team, in training for three months, was forbidden the nightly boilermakers and sat off to the side of each stop, drinking ginger ale and plotting strategy...
...second century Mishnah, the Qumran rules on ritual cleanliness were superstrict. Only the skins of properly slaughtered animals were to be permitted in the temple city. Blind people, as well as the ill and maimed, were barred as unclean. All sexual relations within the temple city were forbidden. One cemetery was to serve four cities since "you shall not follow the customs of the Gentiles who bury their dead everywhere...
Director Bryan Forbes (The Wrong Box) holds such worthies as the late Edith Evans, Kenneth More and Hordern in reserve for a comic turn or two, but their ministrations are futile. Forbes recklessly appends another act to the Cinderella saga in which the commoner is forbidden to marry the Prince. She is carried by coach from the kingdom, set up in a palace where she can do what she does best - mope. The Prince knuckles under to the pressures of his station, slouches toward the altar to take another bride. Fairy Godmothers are not large on unhappy endings, however...