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Toward the end of the 18th century, servants were so numerous and idle in upper-class houses that they became a grievous social problem. House guests and even dinner guests were cadged mercilessly for tips. "It was customary," writes Turner, "for the servants to line up in the hall in a double row, like musketeers, and to extend their palms quite openly. The guest would be expected to disburse sums from left to right alternately as he headed for the door...
...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...
...mean old man. There are plenty of lovable old men-Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Henry Miller-but no old curmudgeon who clubs young reporters with a tongue like a blackthorn stick and sends them scurrying back to their editors filled with terror and fine quotes. It is a grievous lack. Almost every other part of U.S. society has had such a man: the House of Representatives had its Uncle Joe Cannon, the tobacco industry its George Washington Hill, labor its John L. Lewis and baseball its Ted Williams...
...always been properly echoed by the rest of us. But while she lived, it was never really possible to forget that social justice is part of America's obligation to the age that is waiting before, or that life itself is a noble under-taking. Her passing is a grievous loss...
...establishment of a National Council of Alcoholism-predicated on the recognition that alcoholism is a disease rather than a moral flaw. In the continuing English debate on laws concerning prostitution, homosexuality and adultery, Ramsey holds that "morality is not best promoted by giving criminal status to every kind of grievous...