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...INTELLECTUAL. No other social class suffered more during 1966-69 Cultural Revolution than the intellectuals "the stinking ninth category," in the pungent rhetoric of the Red Guards. Few scientists, writers or professors were able to avoid terms of "reform through labor." The victims use a different phrase today: "being sent to the countryside." Many were so persecuted that they committed suicide. Says Huan Xiang, vice president we the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: 'Tor years we imbued ourselves in dogma. Our heads were down and our feet were up in the air. Now we have our feet back...
...August 1979 between Myers and Errichetti and an undercover agent who called himself "Tony Devito" at a motel near New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On the tape, Myers boasted grandly of being able to fix the sheik's immigration problems, then gave some pungent advice: "I'm gonna tell you something real simple and short. Money talks in this business, and bullshit walks." As the agent handed over an envelope bulging with $50,000 in $100 bills, he told Myers, "Spend it well." Replied Myers: "It's a pleasure...
Reagan managed to make all his usual criticisms of Jimmy Carter, liberalism and the welfare state without being shrill or strident. There was scarcely an echo of Barry Goldwater's like-it-or-lump-it 1964 campaign oratory, though many of the ideas were the same. He was pungent without being pugnacious. Big Government, he warned, is "never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us ... High taxes, we are told, are somehow good for us, as if, when Government spends our money...
...sense of place is equally unerring. Born in Australia and currently dividing her time between Capri and New York City, she selected Italian backgrounds for her two earlier novels, The Evening of the Holiday and The Bay of Noon, and for several of her short stories. Even more pungent and persuasive, however, are her evocations of Australia and of English middle-class society in The Transit of Venus. Of Grace and Caro's Australia, Hazzard writes: "To appear without gloves, or in other ways suggest the flesh, to so much as show unguarded love, was to be pitchforked into...
...modern Italian knows this role better than Alberto Moravia, who has been Italy's leading literary celebrity for half a century. His first novel, The Time of Indifference (1929), scrutinized the bourgeoisie and the coming of Mussolini. His antiFascism and pungent tales gained audiences throughout Europe and the U.S. Films were based on his work, notably Two Women, which established Sophia Loren as a serious actress. Today his own scripts, movie reviews and articles are as much a part of Roman life as the traffic. In addition, Moravia benefits from the special relationship European authors have with their readers...