Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highly touted "Hamlet Evaluation System" that Newcount has reached its zenith. In late 1969, HES reported that 92.6% of the countryside was under government control. Amid general ridicule, the figure was "revised" to 87.9%. Last week President Thieu announced that 99.8% of the population and 99.4% of the hamlets and villages were controlled by the government. Yet even if the hamlets rated A (for fully government-controlled), few ranking officials would care to spend the night lest the Communists stage a lethal raid...
Charlie Hyde, as Iambiguous, and Mark Dorman, as Sir Koeld, appear to be the most contemplative. Hyde is consistently good in his thoughtful, Hamlet-like posturing, as he worries about cigars and kazoos. Dorman is suitably imposing as he philosophizes, with a Mrs. Malaprop vocabulary, about "metaphysical exquiries" and throws around big words that sound nice without bothering to mean anything...
...with "selecting my vocation" by arranging a job for him in a local dry-goods store. The pay: $2.27 a month. Later, Penney made his way to Wyoming, where the owners of another dry-goods firm were so impressed with his diligence that they sent him to the mining hamlet of Kemmerer to open a new shop-called The Golden Rule Store. In tiny Kemmerer, almost everybody bought on credit-and paid high prices. Penney, then 26, tried another formula: cash, but with a slender markup to attract big volume. He attributed his chain's success to that policy...
...believe," wrote Harry Truman in his memoirs, "that if Dick Russell had been from Indiana or Missouri or Kentucky, he may well have been President." As it was, Richard Brevard Russell Jr. was an unreconstructed Georgian from the red-clay hamlet of Winder, 45 miles northeast of Atlanta; his one effort at the Democratic nomination, in 1952, quickly collapsed because of his unshakable racial attitudes. Russell remained in the U.S. Senate for 38 years. There he alternated between outdated parochialism and respected service in the national interest. When he died at 73 last week of the complications of chronic lung...
...Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go," said Claudius as he sent Polonius to eavesdrop on Hamlet. The prince of petulance had his problems, not the least of which was that he was an excellent poet who could not keep his mouth shut. Compulsively putting the truth into unforgettable images and rhythms is indeed a form of madness that tyrants have always feared...