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...lacks the privileges that other Soviet ethnic groups enjoy. Other nationalities, such as the Ukrainians and Armenians, have their own provinces where they can speak their language and exercise a degree of cultural autonomy. The Jew is forbidden his own schools, and he cannot learn Hebrew or Yiddish in the public schools; they simply are not taught. Since the 1940s, the Hebrew and Yiddish theater has been almost completely closed down. The only Yiddish periodical that is allowed to be published is a monthly journal edited by a party hack. The so-called Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, which Stalin...
...continued to be rule making. A mythical land called Lithconia, invented by an anonymous American writer, abolished marriage and approved free love. Almost free. Before the passion could be consummated, the lovers-to-be had to sign a register. As long as their names appeared on it, they were forbidden by law to take another lover. No one, apparently, ever escapes the long arm of the law in Utopia...
...nation's TV screens last week, the Marlboro man made his last stand. So did the hole-in-the-shoe fellow who would walk a mile for a Camel, and the snooty adventurer who incredibly prefers a Silva Thin to a maiden plump. Forbidden by Congress to promote their cigarettes on television and radio after Jan. 1, tobacco companies clogged the airways with a surfeit of last-minute plugs, especially during the New Year's Day bowl games...
Kinsolving was forbidden to ask questions at a black-caucus press conference. He was undeterred. When the convention voted new ground rules for church funding of militant groups (TIME, Nov. 2), he wrote a melodramatic piece arguing that under the new rules the Episcopal Church could have funded Al Capone...
...Long-distance phone calls were discouraged: $6,000 saved. >The executive dining room was closed; officers were told to pay their own club dues and forbidden to take co-workers to lunch at company expense: $13,000 saved...