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...unrealistic official rate of exchange, but only $38 at the free market rate. A pound of coffee costs 32 marks, the cheapest suit 150, a simple dress imported from Switzerland between 400 and 600. To earn such "luxuries," most people work beyond their normal 45 hours a week, or moonlight, or put their wives to work...
Under the delectably cold moonlight...
...addition to regular salaries, many American families also fatten their pocketbooks with second and even third incomes-and most of those are used as discretionary income. One-third of U.S. married women hold jobs, and many wage earners moonlight in order to build on an extra room or buy a new freezer. The consumer can make the economy rise by trading up from hamburger to steak, buying an air conditioner to replace the window fan or taking that long-planned trip to Europe. By the same token, he has the power to slow or reverse the economic advance by deciding...
...Anthea imagines herself standing on the promontory that is covered by paperbark trees, near enough to see the writhing of the black necks. "Did she altogether want? Or touch the papery bark, flaking down, down around the grey dunny,* into opalescent scales. Sun and wind, to say nothing of moonlight, had worked upon the paper-barks. Better to watch without becoming involved in any process of skin. She withdrew her hand, finally, out of reach of further experience...
Twisting Hands. White's acerbic eye and listening ear allow no part of Australia's mores to go unrecorded. In Down at the Dump, he describes the funeral of the town tart with Gogolian rambunctiousness. Willy-wagtails by Moonlight is an equally authoritative (and equally comic) account of a dinner party of two couples. The dim hostess, Nora, "made a point of calling her husband's employees by first names, trying to make them part of a family which she alone, perhaps, would have liked to exist." Her more earthy guest, Eileen Wheeler, had been a school...