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Lawrence P. Trainor, organizer, Boston local, Socialist Workers Party (nee Trotskyites) continued. "McCarthy is not through, even if he isn't the Republican hero he was in 1952 . . . he is speaking for all the incipient fascists. American imperialism is at the cross-roads!" A middle-aged woman in a shawl nodded. "That, in turn," Trainor barked, "calls for a counterpoint turn of the Marxists. Living life demands an answer. . .that is reality and reality will face us, even if we don't face...
...Communist reality. Everybody knows the strains and weaknesses of France, the indecisions and diversions in Washington: everybody hears of injustice in a county seat. But who was falsely accused last week in Omsk (pop. 281,000)? What scandals could the newspapers print, if they dared, in Shenyang (nee Mukden)? Over one-fourth the earth's surface was dark silence, broken only by the persistent loudspeaker proclaiming the solidarity and monolithic will of the leadership. But if the solidarity was there, it need not be proclaimed so often; it would not need secret police and work camps to enforce...
...senators are right when they describe themselves as plain and simple sons of the people, the people are a frighteningly pompous lot. During the current hearings of the Mundt (nee McCarthy) Sub-Committee, Senators have wrapped themselves in shrouds of verbiage, valiantly shunning simple phrases...
Princess Caetani (nee Marguerite Chapin of New London, Conn.) gets 500 or so manuscripts a year, and scrupulously goes through them all. Those writers lucky enough to please her fancy will see their stuff in Botteghe Oscure, a fat, cream-colored semiannual collection of writing that prints contributions in French, Italian and English. A writer who is known to be well-to-do may get very little for a fine long story. A poor poet may be paid beyond his wildest hopes for a brief poem...
...Education's approved Dictionary of Conjugations. It is a transitive verb of the first conjugation, regularly inflected (e.g., peronizo, I peronize; peroniza-riamos, we would peronize; han peroni-zado, they have peronized). It will also be required learning after this spring for Argentine schoolchildren. Pronunciation: peh-row-nee...