Word: peons
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...doctor sympathizes. ``I don't believe life is an absolute thing. And I think life is private property,'' says Dr. Carlos Peon Fernandez. But Peon will not break the law for his patient and does not believe, whatever Strasbourg might say, that legislation permitting him to do so will be passed...
...goes -- on through fortune-hunting playboys and good-hearted whores, down to the last oppressed peon. Everything they do and say has been done and said before. But they simply refuse to admit it. The result is not epic cinema as David Lean defined it but as Bette Davis used to play it at Warner Bros. -- where history was a branch of melodrama and the subtler emotions were Xed out on the second-draft screenplay...
...that which befalleth the Rhodes Scholar befalleth the peon; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; for all is vanity...
...tells him that the 4th of July would be perfect since almost all of the Trib's employees are Americans and since it is a Friday. But the D.E. is paranoid: he is afraid to make a decision that no one will trust. So he calls me. the lowliest peon in the building. into his office for my opinion. I suggest the 4th of July. He remains unconvinced...
...highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways. They are terribly concerned about what other people will think of their behavior, and they are also overcome by guilt when other peon $49 pie know nothing of their missteps. Their soldiers are disciplined to the hilt but $4.0 are also insubordinate...