Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that the gap between the rich section of the planet and the poor section is widening. Alas! the publisher has got it wrong on the cover. It isn't the case at all that world population is outstripping productivity. No, the point is that the poor parts of the world are getting poorer and the rich richer. That's one of the first premises--that things are getting worse...
...what they most need to learn, which is how to run a sane state and how to run an educational system which will keep the state sane and in being. And cope too with the frustrations and tensions which are causing such terrible trouble on our home front. There isn't an advanced society today, the United States, the United Kingdom, or France, that isn't in a terrible mess...
...take the wrestlers at Boston Garden seriously. Watching a midget scamper around the ring and pretend to be frightened of another midget impressed me as being just about the most demeaning thing a man could do. Seeing someone sacrifice his human dignity and his manliness for a laugh isn't my idea of comedy...
...embarrassed isn't to be depressed. That comes from taking the audience seriously. However phony the wrestlers may be, the crowd is for real...
...match is slow and too-obviously staged, or if the pin comes too soon and the action isn't humiliating enough, the crowd registers its disapproval. They boo. The Garden fans become very annoyed if they don't get their money's worth of entertaniment...