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...lesser suspects got light red cards. Girls, young men and laborers were issued yellow cards. Those over 50 who were not under suspicion received white cards. White-carders can travel anywhere within the Communist zone, while yellow-carders require a 48-hour wait for permission. Red-carders are forbidden to travel at all. The populace was also ordered to surrender rice and money for redistribution. Rice rations are being given out according to the cards: 400 grams of rice daily to those with white and yellow, only 200 grams to those with either shade...
...theme is, well, sexist. Princess Ida, married to Prince Hilarion at the tender age of one (he was twice her age, he tells us), has withdrawn from society to become the dean of a woman's University"--an institution Gilbert seems to find inherently ridiculous. Anything male is strictly forbidden--the female dons are awakened not by a rooster, but by "an accomplished hen," and one of them is expelled for bringing in a set of chessmen...
...defense it must be said her early time spot unfairly limits her. In the beginning, at least, CBS worried about her naturally hip jargon, and it has forbidden the least hint of sexual innuendo or topicality in the show's humor. As usual, the network is underrating the sophistication of today's kids, if not their parents' capacity for taking moral offense at everything but the worst sin of all-blandness...
...What is forbidden in the Sixth Commandment...
...Marshfield suffers from "distraction." As a cure, his bishop orders him to spend a month in the desert, atoning. But this being truly the latter age, ascetism is not what it once was, and Marshfield gets to expiate his sins in fairly comfortable surroundings--a motel, actually. He is forbidden serious "intrapersonal or doctrinal" conversation, non-escapist reading material, and the Word of God as set down in Holy Scriptures (Marshfield doesn't miss the irony of his situation--who ever heard of a motel without Bibles?) His nights are to be devoted to poker, his days to golf...