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Andreas Teuber uses quick, nervous gestures and rapid-fire speech to see off the instability of Jerry's mind. He is thoroughly convincing, though his delivery snows under an occasional Albee gem. He and Abbott would be a hard team to beat on any stage...
...Gem of Justice. The combination of high progressive rates and numerous avenues for escaping them imposes grievous economic costs upon the nation. It leads to misallocation of resources, because economic decisions are made with an eye on the tax angle. Among the highly prosperous, a great waste of energy goes into minimizing tax liability instead of into maximizing return...
With or without the personal exemption, a no-deduction, no-discrimination, low-rate, mild-progression tax structure could be only a gem of simplicity and justice compared to the present structure. Such a sweeping reform would bring a great release of energies. All of the effort and imagination now devoted to tax avoidance could be devoted instead to more economically constructive purposes. The misallocated resources now deflected by tax considerations could flow into more productive channels. The advantages now accruing to the ingenious tax avoider and the outright cheat would largely disappear. The corrosive fog of sordidness and pettiness that...
Seedy family house, two rooms in basement. Decor peeling, faded, floral and flyblown. If you are too late to secure this gem, we have a spare along the road, rather more derelict. A lightly built member of our staff negotiated the basement stair but our Mr. Halstead went crashing through...
...good job. Besides being an outstanding student of composition in the department of music, he has concertmaster of the Bach Society Orchestra since his senior year in high school. But Mr. Street showed himself not only competent to handle a treacherously difficult concerto; he and Bentley Layton's gem-like little orchestra, made the concerto exciting...