Word: ratting
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...Paris physician, Jean has been dancing almost half his life; too high-strung and restless for school, at 13 he was a "little rat" in the Paris Opera Ballet. He left the ballet to fight with the Maquis during the war. At war's end he joined the small Soirées de la Danse, later the Ballet des Champs Elysées. He designed his first ballet for Nathalie-a duet to Beethoven's "Pathetique" piano sonata-and they were married shortly after. He "detests" classical duets-"too rigid, too formal. I always hate my partner...
...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...