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...opposition by roaming through central Santiago shouting "?Silencio! ?Silencio!" In a clever ploy, the government managed to put ample supplies of meat, which has been scarce for several months, in many Santiago shops. Not even residents of wealthier suburbs -who normally would have supported the day of silence-could resist such bait. They turned out to shop, often in the city's shantytowns, which were better supplied with food than middle-class neighborhoods because Allende's strongest backers are the poor...
...deserting us, but something very disquieting is happening." TIME Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud cabled: "For the first time in his political career, Thieu has become a truly sympathetic character. Even his opponents have expressed support for him as he apparently attempts to resist American pressures and plug the holes in the badly leaking boat of his presidency. The Vietnamese have a highly developed sense of pride, and if it seems to them that the Americans are attempting at this late date to abandon them, they could easily unite as never before behind an anti-Americanism far more virulent than...
There are some plays that a reviewer would rather feed than judge. Like stray kittens, they rub up against you in an imploring, hard-to-resist way and make friendly little noises. They are so thin that one yearns to put flesh on the bones of their plots, give them vitamin-rich lines to chew, and nourish their characters and situations...
Women legislators are not solely women: they belong to particular ethnic groups, to religious bodies, to economic classes, to political parties...most important, women legislators belong to and are beholden to a male-dominated power structure that draws them in even when they would resist...
...reproach to that incurable hypocrite, man. Irony is DeVries' weapon, and this collection of fugitive pieces extends his gallery of not always humane inconsistencies. When a worker obeys a "Think" sign, he is dismissed for woolgathering. An executive boasts of an affair he was strong enough to resist. But after his wife's resulting diatribe, he is furtively making plans for consummation. A youth fears that his girl friend is pregnant. Nightmares of a shotgun wedding haunt him for weeks-until she assures him, "Everything is all right." "I was free-free! I turned, seized...