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...every shop and factory to see that no man is paid a penny more than the government decrees." Cried Heath: "Let us all beware!" Wilson's law would, he said, "lead to the smothering of initiative and to the flight of the enterprising from this country to other, freer lands." Dissatisfaction with Wilson was reflected last week in the Gallup poll, which gave the Tories a 2½% lead over Labor. It was the worst showing for Labor since it took office...
...result of such work is that the formal, deterministic view of psychology is outmoded and being replaced by a far freer eclectic, and occasionally chaotic, scene in which nobody seems afraid to get into...
...much of this century, Spanish artists have felt that they, rather than their paintings, were up against a wall. The government discouraged modernity, and its practitioners were honored any place but at home. As a freer spirit began to emerge in many phases of Spanish life, modern art enjoyed a resurgence. Now it has its own museum 90 miles from Madrid. Significantly, the founders are the artists themselves...
...picnics, transistor radios, blue jeans and the frug, and some young Europeans hit the roads as beatniks, much as alienated young Americans did in the early '50s. The U.S. influence, in fact, is sometimes a disruptive one in families abroad, where the desire of youths to imitate their freer American counterparts may run smack up against an authoritarian family structure. When Free University of Berlin students recently staged a sit-in, they asked an American visitor: "Is this the way they did it in Berkeley...
Julius Caesar is a no-nonsense play. It gets right down to business and sticks to business. There is no sub-plot, no comic relief, not even any mildly humorous lines except for a handful of Casca's; and the play is freer of bawdry than any other save Richard II. Aside from a little compression of chronology, Shakespeare followed closely his three source biographies in Plutarch's Lives, often just turning its line of prose into verse...