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...courage to write and stage The Crucible. The play was picketed not only by a number of right-wing groups, but also by the American Bar Association on the grounds that its portrayal of the 17th-century Puritan judges was unsympathetic. Ironically, in 1954 Miller himself was denied a passport to attend the Brussels premiere of this very play because the State Department felt he was supporting the Communist movement...
...American embassy, but there were so many people waiting to go inside that I came back in the night and slept in the line until the next day. When I finally got to the inside of the embassy, they told me I needed a lot of papers and a passport, which cost 800 pesos ($72). Most of the other people there were city people who had papers and money. Now I know that the only way for a campesino like me to go to the United States is as a wetback...
...Israeli one, a Jordanian force and a joint army. All three would guard different borders and installations. Every resident of the confederation would have the right to vote for the regional government, and every resident would have the right to choose whether he wants an Israeli or a Jordanian passport. The idea of such a confederation might sound unrealistic, but then so have all the attempts of the past to find a solution. It is a clash between two societies, one emerging from a feudalistic framework and the other deeply rooted in democratic principles. When Jewish and Arab leaders meet...
...graduate who drives a cab; the B.A. in marketing who makes $3.50 an hour in a party-favors store; the Ph.D.s who work as stewardesses, fishermen, welders, bank tellers. All bear witness to the death of the deeply ingrained American belief that a college diploma is a semi-automatic passport to a high-paying job and a fulfilling career. As a Wellesley senior puts it, "After college, there is no free lunch...
...country discovers valuable ore just beyond its borders. They hire mercenaries to lead African troops in an effort to rearrange the border. A down-and-out fugitive, our hero, is waylaid in French Somaliland (he is forced to leave Greece for getting mixed up in a pornography racket) with passport problems. He meets a "businessman" and when effusively drunk he brags of a non-existent background in soldiering. Before he knows it he is recruited and clawing through the jungle with a bunch of jingoistic thugs. When I read about the British mercenaries commissioned to battle the MPLA in Angola...