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...reaction of the South Vietnamese people to possible Communist rule, Rosenthal said that there has been only one peasant uprising in North Vietnam and large numbers of such uprisings in the South. The Vietnamese, he concluded, "consent to the rule of the Communists" because "the Communists offer both brutality and betterment, while the United States offers only brutality...
...concrete convolutions designed by the famed French architect Le Corbusier. Homemade ghee (clarified butter), which villagers not long ago insisted was the only nourishing cooking medium, is giving way to sealed tins of vegetable oil; kerosene-burning hurricane lanterns are supplanting the traditional Aladdin-like mud diva in peasant huts, and well-to-do farmers often buy a second lantern to hang outside as a sign of affluence. Though most villagers still prefer cooking fires of cow dung, some huts now boast $2 oil stoves. Rural electrification is also spreading, but slowly, with an estimated 80% of India...
Traveling fashion exhibits tour the mountains of Transylvania and other remote areas to bring the message to peasant crones in babushkas. Even in Bulgaria, the most retarded nation of the bloc, the party journal Partien Zhi-vot recently reasoned: "We must not lag behind the more advanced countries in being attractively attired. Foreigners judge the superiority of our socialist way of life not only from our factories, building programs and roads, but also from the outward appearance of our people...
...Francisco and his home in Carmel, has been developing his game theory most of his professional life. It is his contention that the clues to man's irrational behavior can be found in the games he plays. Not tennis and golf and football, but Wooden Leg, Schiemiel, Peasant, Stupid, Let's You and Him Fight, and Now I've Got You, You Son of a Bitch. Some may wonder: These are games? But for those who want out, Berne has a suggestion-it takes two to play...
...next two and a half hours, Zorba directs his master on a plunge to utter ruin. First, Zorba causes the mine to cave in. Next Zorba plays pimp and pushes Bates into a love affair with a local peasant woman. Her violent death at the hands of her fellow villagers soon ends the affair...