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...Customers poured in. To handle a daily turnover that increased a hundredfold, Gattegno took on 20 employees at wages remarkable for France: $250 a month for salesmen, $225 for the lowliest packer-more than three times the going rate. The first year Gattegno grossed $714,000. Moreover, said he proudly: "I pay my full taxes. I don't have two sets of books...
...long before the English could read or write." "But," she added, "of course when they did learn finally, they produced a Shakspere." She pointed out that the Irish have always had poetry in the marrow of their bones. And this is true, from the most learned scholar to the lowliest illiterate--a characteristic the Irish share with the Japanese...
...Fellini's hands, people sometimes seem more important than the screen has made them appear for years; they seem larger, somehow, even the lowliest and most hopelessly lost among them...
...London as his scene, its squalid poor for his supporting players, and a well-born rake turned highwayman as his hero. Whereas Handel had been intrigued by the idea that savages could be as noble as lords and ladies, Gay argued that nobles could be as savage as the lowliest pimp; his characters, though they try desperate hard, are despondent over their failure to exceed "the quality folk" in treachery and knavery...
...have attacked the narrow and bigoted restrictions of the McCarran Immigration Act; because we have criticized a 'security system' which conceals the accuser from his victim; because we have insisted that the true spirit of American democracy demands a scrupulous respect for the rights of even the lowliest individual, and a high standard of fair play...