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...promptly to your Essay "The Fine Art of Putting Things Off." One reality that must be propounded is that only those of us loners (freelance writers, artists, commission salesmen, et al.) are entitled to claim it as an art or skill. For us, risk is involved. We gamble our livelihood against losing work or sales. For people on a salary, it is simply called dishonesty...
ACTORS ARE A fragile, bizarre breed. Their eccentricities and insecurities are probably linked to the nature of their livelihood. They grope for recognition and an intangible goal called "the top" only to defend the niche from eager young talents. To attempt the climb one must be hooked--on laughter, on audiences, on applause...
Bokassa's attempts to improve the livelihood of his people are not nearly as impressive as his efforts to keep them politically subdued. Last week the President celebrated his 53rd birthday by inaugurating, to the beat of tribal drums, a new diamond-cutting plant. But the $15 million in foreign exchange brought in by diamond production last year is the only bright spot in an otherwise abysmal economy. Fully 90% of the people still live outside the cash economy, while Bokassa too often devotes himself to showy but nonbasic ventures. For example, as part of his birthday celebration...
...between ruler and ruled that runs counter to Mao's expressed principle that in a proletarian society the masses rule themselves. Even more offensive to the Communist is the Confucianists' extremely unproletarian disdain for manual labor. "The superior man attends to spiritual things and not to his livelihood," was Confucius' pronouncement...
...longer the lightning quick and powerful fighter who was banished for prophetically asserting that as an American, he "had no quarrel with them Viet Cong." As penalty for this vision, which he could claim long before it came into vogue, Ali was stripped, not only of his livelihood and title, but of his incomparable skills as well...