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...total federal take from personal income tax this year will amount to an estimated $45 billion, a record high (see tax story page 26). Americans are not the world's most heavily taxed people, but they fork out the most. Inevitably, there was grumbling, but much of it seemed for the record. Men have hated taxes ever since the dawn of civilization, and in years past, taxpayer discontent has led to rebellions-including, in some simplified versions of U.S. history, the violent tax protests that brought on the U.S. Revolution. In the light of such a past, there seemed...
...curls, she looks like the young Shirley Temple. Her ensuing seduction of Jonathan on Mamma's bed is as hilarious a scene as I can recall. And when Dad's corpse enters the proceedings, she uses his arm to punctuate her speech as nonchalantly is one would a fork or pencil at table...
Given a table, tuning fork, piles of music and the Sestetto Italiano Luca Marenzio one has a delightful evening of Italian madrigals from the late sixteenth century. Add Sanders Theatre and last night's smallish but enthusiastic audience, and Adriano Banchieri's madrigal comedy La Barca di Venezia per Podova becomes the absurd and absorbing musical work it has been for three and a half centuries...
...Americans put away some 26.4 billion quarts of milk (enough to keep Niagara's Horseshoe Falls flowing at the usual rate for one hour), but that was about 35 million quarts down from the previous year. If that trend continues, the U.S. taxpayer will almost certainly have to fork out even more than the $300 million paid for supports for milk and other dairy products...
...Force Academy, is braced by an upperclassman, he sucks in his gut, throws out his chest and brays: "Sir, a doolie is that insignificant whose rank is measured in negative units, one whose potential for learning is unlimited." At meals he sits at attention and lifts his fork from plate to mouth in the rectangular movement of a robot; he shouts his response when asked a question. Until not so long ago, when entering his dormitory, he had to rasp in intercom fashion: "Sir, Air Force Academy jet 201K turning base, three green...