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...debates that rage between philosophers. At first, I saw a place that had fallen apart. Walking the streets of old Havana, I passed decaying buildings in a city that formerly boasted grand, Spanish-influenced architecture. Instead of sunny-colored stucco walls amidst tall white columns, I saw rotting doorways, paintless exteriors, and decayed molding. But after a few days of speaking with my Cuban friends, I began to find myself impressed with what Cubans did have. The government provides universal health care, education, housing, and food rations. It even generously funds the arts. And once I focused more on people...
...unpaid bills, sobersided Dan Cantrell cannot be choosy about his work. His job as "investigator" for the Trustee Personal Finance Co. is to hound the "slows." He soon finds that the slows' lot is not a happy one, either. Families live in crowded walk-ups where dank, paintless walls "shed their plaster skin revealing the ribs of lath." Unkempt women in faded dressing gowns are readier with a pound of flesh than a $5 payment. Industrious Dan cannot remain stony before genuine hardship, eventually decides he has had enough of the "easy payment" world. Author Doyle, a credit manager...
After jotting down names of the invaders Chief Randall sent them paintless and disenchanted into the mist. "We got one of 'em that had blue all over his hands," the Chief confided...
Paramount's Bahama Passage has one redeeming grace: fathoms of magnificent Technicolored shots made in the Bahamas. They have the authentic tradewind touch: the soapy green of shallow water, the blue-black of deep water, the yellow-white sails of fishing smacks, the paintless clapboard houses, the lassitude of tropic...
...briars, corncobs, clays, calabashes. He likes Oriental rugs, is somewhat of a naturalist (collects birds' nests), owns a maple grove. He bought a tumbled-down place about 15 miles from Ludlow and uses it as a fishing club?he loves fishing. His automobile is good but old?old and paintless. There are nine clocks in the room where he works, for one of his hobbies is repairing clocks. Mr. Sargent is, in Republican state politics, quite a power. He opposed the 16th Amendment to the Federal Constitution (Income Tax), the 17th (Popular Election of Senators), the 18th (Prohibition...