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Although the criteria for choosing those privileged 150 are somewhat dubious by present standards, the 1920 version of a clubbie was not a foppish idiot most frequently found passed out in a leather chair at his club. It was presumed that if your last name was Adams and you were a St. Paul's man, you simply were a cut above the rest. This era was before the days of the self-conscious identity crisis, and if for the first 22 years of your life you were constantly reminded that you were born to lead, you generally led. Witness...
...little man's traditional distrust of those with power?whether they are national or even union leaders?was also voiced. "Nixon's program is unfair, discriminatory and economically idiotic," says Los Angeles' Arywitz. "The other day somebody?oh, yes, it was that other idiot, Agnew?said that what's good for America is good for the worker. Since 95% of all Americans are workers, we take the position that what's good for the worker is good for America." Says Earl Shaw, a Berkeley typesetter: "Meany is so far removed from the workingman. Organized labor leaders are too much...
...Tokyo banker added that the idea of cutting U.S. shipments of raw materials to Japan was "reminiscent of the eve of Pearl Harbor, when the Roosevelt Administration placed an embargo against shipping scrap iron and oil to Japan. Nobody on either side of the Pacific," he said, "would be idiot enough to wish for a replay of that, except on the screen." Officially the Japanese line remained as stated recently by Fukuda: "In no corner of my brain is there any thought of revaluing...
...this is meant to be a funny piece and nice girls don't get angry. So I'll smile and nod and listen and when I stammer the classified rates for the one hundredth time, I'll agree with you that I'm a babbling idiot...
...seek out and comprehend the deepest wellsprings of drama, it is an hour well spent. Within the past two weeks, Joseph Papp's Public Theater, where The Grey Lady Cantata is housed, has offered playgoers: Subject to Fits (a free-form fantasy based on Dostoevsky's The Idiot), Slag (claustrophobic feminine hysteria in a decaying British girls' school) and Here Are Ladies (see below). The handsome landmark building on Lafayette Street in Lower Manhattan carries the exciting bee-hum of dramatic activity on every floor. Here is life, imagination, audacity and skill...