Word: landlordism
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...role as heir apparent to "Great Uncle" Ho Chi Minh. Back in 1951 Truong Chinh was named secretary-general of the Lao Dong (Communist) Party, and launched a ferocious campaign of land reform. His slogan: "Better kill ten innocent people than let one enemy escape." Son of a landlord mandarin himself, Truong let his own parents die at the hands of his land reformers, declaring coldly: "The people's court was right...
...Swiggett sees it, seems to lie in thinking that a few miles of Long Island Railroad track can separate the company's time from his own. While Steve never becomes as abject as Pavlov's dogs, the company rules him by conditioned reflex. It is the absentee landlord of his home, the unseen host at his dinner parties, the spectral judge of his every decision...
Older residents were more sorrowful than resentful. One woman reminisced about her 44 years as the University's tenant, and stated that Harvard was an "ideal" landlord. Her boarding house used to house students until complaints about the DeWolfe St. "rathouses" caused the transfer to the dormitories. Now, students will live on DeWolfe again, and she thinks this will force her to leave Cambridge...
...avantgarde; it is not even its stale and stupid quips, but rather its greasy benevolence. Fairly often, to be sure. Actor Skulnik shakes himself free from it: with a demonstration of how to walk so that shoes will not wear out, with a tale of how each month his landlord pays him rent, with a mere shrug or grunt or monosyllable, he can be a delight. But oftener he struggles, like a boxer, to outpoint his material, or like a magician, to make it vanish; and oftenest, he is mowed down by it. The evening is as unhappy a mixture...
...scanty rate of 1.18% of loans. Furthermore, credit statistics are misleading, since they conceal the fact that many new consumer debts are new obligations in name only. The vast postwar increase in home ownership, for example, means that millions of families pay the banker instead of the landlord; when a family buys a car or a TV set, its cash outlay for public transportation or entertainment decreases. Moreover, while the U.S. citizen in 1956 owes more, he also owns more. Per-capita savings have risen to $1,300 from $330 in 1939. Consumers' assets (including $200 billion worth...