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...misery, month after month, year after year, was wrong. It could be, when we finally write the definitive analysis of this period, that as few as half a million people who were employable, who really wanted and sought jobs, and who had really been unemployed long enough to undergo hardship, were still out of work this spring, though the unemployment figures were near 7 million. This does not ease the misery of people genuinely affected by the recession. But political effects come from mass emotion; that response never appeared...
That is either here nor there, as Lardner's hard-spelling pitcher Jack Keefe wrote to his friend Al in Call for Mr. Keefe! Some dusting off is necessary, not for the benefit of the splendid Lardner, but for those hardship cases who have yet to become his readers. The two volumes at hand do the job agreeably...
Sales school and its atmosphere of "people acting crazy" also received an interesting treatment in one Crimson article. The picture presented is one of regimented hardship, mandatory sleeping on concrete, blind obedience and a denunciation of self and creativity. It is possible to view sales school that way; but then again, it's also possible to view your entire first semester at Harvard solely in terms of the freshman mixer...
...measures will mean more hardship for Rhodesia's blacks as well. Salisbury recently forced 2,000 Africans to move from their tribal homes in the southeastern border area near the scene of a brazen Easter Sunday attack by guerrillas, who killed three South African tourists and derailed a freight train. Hundreds of other blacks have been awakened in the middle of the night by security police to be questioned or hauled off to detention...
...unnamed organizers of the riots wanted to "stir up disorder in the whole country." In Peking and elsewhere, great prominence was given to the workers' militia rather than to the regular army as the group responsible for maintaining order. The militia, said the official press agency, "feared neither hardship nor death" in fighting the "class enemy." Significantly, it is Mao and the radicals who have promoted the expansion of workers' militia organizations in China, presumably as a power base in the event of a future struggle with more conservative factions...