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Lillian Ware (powerless) is late in paying a tax of $41.57 [June 24]. Punishment: loss of a $25,000 home...
There are further complications, but the web of plots and interrelationships ultimately amounts to a struggle of poor, generally powerless men and women to preserve what passes for dignity and self-respect--usually at each other's expense. Their problem, as Brecht shows it, is that they have no understanding of dignity beyond the sham that passes for gentility among a capitalist society's ruling class. They have a passion for outward virtue combined with an infinite corruptibility. They parody bourgeois family life, but are loyal only so far as self-protection permits. Peachum is forever misquoting scripture to defend...
...immediately comes to mind, of course, is why concentrate on the institute? Radcliffe is a college, isn't it? Not completely. It has its own endowment (meager by comparison with Harvard's), its own offices, executives, staff and board of trustees, but in many areas it is a curiously powerless institution. Instead of being fiscally self-reliant, it operates under a system whereby the Faculty of Arts and Sciences gets the bulk of women's tuition and then doles out Radcliffe's operating budget. Radcliffe has never offered its own undergraduate courses...
...killed 23 Dubliners Friday, like the murder of Marcus Foster by the Symbionese Liberation Army which apparently came to a fiery end this weekend, these events seem impossible to justify by rational, humane standards--by any rule that doesn't hold an entire people, including the young, sick or powerless, responsible for another people's suffering...
...clip that threatened soaring prices for manufactured goods in months to come, and Ford Motor Co. raised prices on its 1974-model cars and trucks-even though it had signed an agreement not to do so. The Government's soon-to-be-defunct Cost of Living Council seemed powerless to stop the rise. Only the Federal Energy Administration appeared capable of vigorous anti-inflationary action. It accused Gulf Oil Corp. of inflating the price of imported crude oil and passing part of the overcharge along to U.S. consumer-a complaint that if sustained, could lead to an order rolling...