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...book tells Priest's story as reconstructed by one of his descendants. Mano now plunges into an entirely different culture and a whole new set of environmental details. This time a political regime, which is mercifully left sketchy, has decreed that all forms of life down to the merest microbe are equal. Any aggression, even an argument, is a criminal act. People can only ingest something called E-diet, so insubstantial that men no longer sweat, urinate or defecate. Even so, they kill certain microscopic organisms simply by breathing. The command for general suicide goes out so that...
...stock market, which for years has been crowded with heavy breathers at the merest wisp of a peace rumor, inscrutably chose the session immediately following President Nixon's cease-fire announcement to stage a flounder. The Dow Jones industrial average, the most closely watched barometer, fell 14 points, its largest decline in 18 months. On Friday, the Dow closed at 1,004, off 23 points for the week and down 48 points from its high so far in what was supposed to be a banner year...
...always been brought up to believe that Hasty Pudding Theatricals were somehow degenerate affairs, full of preppies done up in drag and nasty jokes about women and only the merest appearance of theater. I mean that's what I'd always been told. So, where is the raunchiness of yesteryear? This year's show, The Wrongway Inn by name and the Pudding's 124th production, may be set in a whorehouse on the eve of the Revolutionary War but deep down inside it's as red, white and blue as a slice of American...
...details of their lives before their work is done and they are forced to say goodbye. Emily might be a bit too tense and a little too officious, but before Frank has to leave he's agreed to return the following day for Thanksgiving dinner. It's the merest vignette of a "drama." Little is ventured, though something is gained...
Grunberger thinks that the pre-Hitler Weimar Republic applied the merest veneer of democracy over what remained basically an authoritarian state. Thus the mass of Germans easily accepted dictatorship. Within a year after Hitler became Chancellor, the birth rate, which is normally a sure index of public confidence, rose by 22%. Crime dropped off noticeably after 1933. War preparations and economic recovery did away with joblessness. Living standards improved under the peacetime Third Reich; food shortages did not become severe until 1943, the fourth year...