Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takes to turn the week's news into history. Twelve newsmaker cards, each featuring a different personality, have been inserted (one to a copy) into the 2,500,000 copies of this week's TIME. This will be repeated twelve times during the year. Your next-door neighbor may have a different card from yours, but you may get it next time. Since the odds against your collecting all twelve in your own copies of TIME are 18,614 to 1, it will be fun to know when anyone gets a full...
When the master's retarded son got married and then had a baby, the family decided to cut down on Bally's rations to even out the family budget. Occasionally a neighbor would see Bally scrounging around in the garbage. Still, Bally had one great pleasure-his Bible, which he could read whenever Madame Kolkman, as a mark of special favor, allowed him to use her glasses...
...confiscatory 91% with a maze of loopholes and deductions. A millionaire may pay a lower rate of income tax on his gross income than a salary earner who has to scrape to send his children to college. One taxpayer may carry a much heavier tax burden than a neighbor with the same gross income and the same number of dependents...
...rules and his childless uncle owns. Papa obligingly dies, but seventyish Uncle Edwin refuses to follow suit. (Death is ardently willed and obsessively discussed in Compton-Burnett novels, usually because it is the survivors' only means to get hold oi the estate.) Instead, Uncle Edwin marries a thirtyish neighbor named Rhoda. Since age has made Uncle Edwin's conjugal privileges meaningless, the marriage is a big surprise but, hereditarily speaking, no calamity. In a moment of passion (passion is always momentary in Compton-Burnett), Simon makes it a calamity by adulterously siring a son with Rhoda. Uncle Edwin...
...grant aid to the rest of the world, while it gave Latin America only $625 million-less than 2% of the total, less than the Philippines got. Yet even now, measured by its per-capita income of $285 a year, Latin America, with 194 million people, is a poor neighbor living next door to a rich uncle (U.S. per-capita income $2,100). The inescapable need is for more capital...