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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Nasser's Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference in Cairo on realizing that it was Communist-run. Chamoun's policies, he said, had caused 'the most reactionary as well as the most progressive forces' to band together in united opposition. 'We have never known such corruption. I myself lost my race for Parliament last year merely because my opponent spent more money buying votes. This situation has nothing to do with Nasser. It is entirely an internal Lebanese matter...
...unionists persist in working without a contract, the companies can exert more pressure. They can stop deducting union dues from employees' paychecks, and they can refuse to pay union stewards who now work in plants and handle grievances, etc. The union let it be known that if no contract is signed, the U.A.W. will not be responsible for any scattered stoppages or slowdowns by workers. In turn, the companies let it be known that if unionists try such harassing tactics, the plants will be closed down...
Economists have long known that 100% employment is impossible under any circumstances because there is always a certain amount of frictional unemployment caused by transitional or "between-job" idleness. But after World War II they did think that a level of "reasonably full employment" could be achieved along with stable prices, generally agreed that it would average out at 96% employment, or 4% unemployment. If unemployment rose above 4%, they felt that lowered purchasing power would cause prices to fall; if unemployment dropped below 4%, increasing demand would push prices higher. Now they know that this level no longer applies...
...populated with laundrymen who won't iron shirts, with waiters who won't serve, with carpenters who will come around some day maybe, with executives whose minds are on the golf course, with spiritual delinquents of all kinds who have been triumphantly determined to enjoy what was known until the present crisis as 'the new leisure.' We may lack a few of the refinements of Rome's final decadence, but we do have the two-hour lunch, the three-day weekend and the all-day coffee break. And, if you want...
This quietly compelling first novel by 36-year-old. Amsterdam-born Hans Koningsberger does what life has been known to do: it mismatches a man and a woman. Toni and Catherine are not meant for each other, but owing to the chemistry of passion, smoke gets in their eyes. Temperamentally, the pair usurp each other's sex roles. Toni is sensitive, day-dreamy, putty-willed. An internee, he longs to escape to Britain, but rarely makes a real move to get there. Swiss Catherine is the fully emancipated "New Woman" who was born in the inkwells of Ibsen...