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...suspicious, xenophobic, obsessed with pinching their pennies and palping their livers. They are only part of a larger Paris, drawn with fearful and totally remorseless accuracy, which becomes a tawdry circle of hell. The French whom Shirley meets are all impossibly rude: "We wanted to give you beans and jam for dinner, but my wife refuses to do American cooking," says Philippe's best friend, welcoming Shirley to his house for the first time. They file everything away in loony little mechanical categories they call logic. They are incapable of generosity or any human warmth. They believe that...
...chicks put on some of their music, but they were restless. Flex wanted to know why all of 'em didn't go up to the Square, Spider, he nodded approval and took out his comb to pretty up. But Rocco had to come in case there was a jam. Rocco was mean-looking. So they headed for the Square, and they told the chicks they could come along...
...Black people, moving in fifty cities simultaneously and collectively-that's where nationalism comes in-against General Motors with a work slow-down can jam America's biggest industry-its auto industry. China can't do that. Cuba can't do that, of course. Russia can't do it. The European Common Market can't do it. That's a helluva lot of power if you realize that you've got that power...
...susceptible to nostalgia and prone to forgiveness. Besides, the bewildering parade of 28 postwar governments, most of them incapable of coping with domestic problems, has made the old days suddenly seem nicer. "If quello were here, this wouldn't happen," says a Roman trapped in a traffic jam. "When lui was around," complains a robbery victim, "even the Mafia behaved." In a recent poll, 66% of those asked whether they would temporarily surrender full power to an "honest, disinterested and energetic man" to carry out reforms replied that they would...
...consciousness. We have the answer. They're trying to suppress us. (Anyone opposed to Scientology is a Suppressive Person.) L. Ron Hubbard's breakthroughs in the field of electronic wave theory must be kept secret, for once the vital wave lengths of the Thetans are known, any despot could jam the signal, so to speak...