Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a very personal reason for congratulating those heroes of freedom, the dissidents who have the courage to fight for freedom inside the monster and to suffer cruel persecution. When Communism took over my country, I chickened out and fled to a safe haven in this land of the free...
...family living on the taxpayers' money in the White House? "All personal expenses are paid for out of my own pocket," said the President, disclaiming any "mooching off the American taxpayers." How come married couples pay higher tax rates than singles? What about the Ottawa Indians' land-claim payments, a Kentuckian asked...
THERE IS NOTHING funny about a Polaroid Land camera. But if you want a joke, make one 20 feet high, put it in the middle of the Cambridge Common, and get a dozen people to dance and chant in a circle around it. Enlarging the mundane is an old formula for humor...
Stanislaw Lem's stories are somewhat like the enormous gag that Edwin Land, the wealthy inventor of the camera that bears his name, pulled on Harvard when he tied his contribution for the Science Center to the stipulation that the structure look like his photographic brainchild. Lem is an absurd humorist whose jokes are too big to be funny. He writes of a world gone mad. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub and The Futurological Congress are tales set in future societies that no longer know where they have come from or where they are going. Indeed, they no longer know...
...laws to encourage sterilization. An $11 award for undergoing sterilization has been fairly successful. From May to September of 1976, 2 million people were sterilized. And civil servants who have more than three children lose their jobs. In some states they also lose eligibility for housing loans or land grants...