Word: rat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indictment by Mr. Stewart. The four characters who subscribe to this value are eminently neurotic--one even lapsing psychotic toward the close of each act. The other two characters escape this affliction, by one by having already attained success in the business world, and other by rejecting the whole rat-race as not worth the effort. It is this last fellow who is the disruptive influence. If not only he were not around, the other characters would not be so constantly aware that they are not, after all, living the good life they like to kid themselves into thinking they...
...letter? "What of the men outside Government who suborn those inside it? They are careful to see that they do not do anything that can be construed as illegal. They operate through lawyers- men who are known as clever lawyers a cleverness which is like the instinct of the rat that knows how to get the bait without getting caught. Many businessmen, ostensibly reputable business men, employ these knavish lawyers to circumvent the law and enrich then selves at Government expense...
Either Congress must devise a tax structure that will distribute the costs of mobilization equitably power the population, or consumers must take their chances in an inflationary rat-race. The first choice challenges politicians' faith in the willingness of their constituents to face unpleasant facts--such as the fact that some of them will go without new automobiles. If Congress shies from honestly informing the public of the prospect, pretending instead that face-saving halfway measure can be effective, representative government will have failed major test...
...Senator McCarthy has spread his rat poison so carelessly that the freedoms for which we are fighting will die from his medicine long before the Russians could ever get here...
...academic rat race," which many people thought would materialize due to the "upper half of the class" consideration has never actually materiallized. There is a group which has resigned itself to the wartime situation, and then decided to forget about it on the grounds that it could do nothing. This group claims to be "carrying on as always," but it is definitely in the minority...