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...meeting is a cross between a self-criticism session in a Soviet factory and question time in the British House of Commons. It is no place for the thin-skinned or the nervous. Smoking is forbidden and only mineral water is on hand to revive the fainthearted. Those attending sit round a horseshoe-shaped table. The windows are curtained to banish time. Most members of the Manhattan contingent, who fly over by chartered Pan American 707 jet, keep their watches on Eastern Standard Time. Monthly and year-to-date financial results are flashed on a big screen. They show whether...
...chorus girl in a road company of Top Banana, but was fired on the road. Too broke to get back to New York, she holed up in Chicago. She kept alive with odd jobs, and began to read books, something she had been forbidden as a child. "I leaped into Kafka, Joyce, T.S. Eliot," she recalls. "I began writing short stories, song lyrics." These led to a job writing movie lyrics for MGM in Hollywood, and soon after that she began her successful collaboration with Andre. "But all this time," she says, "I felt this terrible guilt because I hadn...
Kalem's search for thoroughbreds started while he was growing up in Maiden, Mass. His Greek parents, Protestant fundamentalists from Asia Minor, called the stage "an instrument of the devil." This attitude naturally created a forbidden-fruit temptation, and young Ted sneaked bites at every opportunity. But it was to be a long road to his permanent aisle seat. At Harvard he majored in sociology, graduating cum laude. During World War II he won a Bronze Star in the Pacific. At the Christian Science Monitor he reviewed books, an occupation he followed during his first ten years at TIME...
...Voluntary" Deductions. Though forbidden to contribute to political campaigns, corporations give bonuses to officers who thereupon hand them over to a favored candidate. Or a corporation may donate supplies or the use of an airplane to a candidate. Labor unions are not allowed to contribute members' dues to campaigns, so they set up separate funds to finance candidates. The National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association hit on making its pensioners pay for political campaigns. Each month, $10 is "voluntarily" deducted from every pension check and put into a fund that has become the largest single contribution...
When the Supreme Court outlawed school prayers nearly ten years ago, it set loose an entire American cosmology of angels and devils and libertarians and ministers and pedants. Had the perversion of law really come to such a pass of depravity that children would be forbidden to pray? What of the separation of church and state? Religious and constitutional pieties contradicted one another. The emotional and the rational battled in politicians' minds...