Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beforehand, I thought Brahms' First Symphony would be an anticlimax, but I had forgotten. It only seemed rather nostalgic after the Honegger--a statement of the enviable confidence of the nineteenth century. Brahms and Koussevitzky are very congenial. Under his direction, the music achieves a great string of rich climaxes which march along with excitement, but without remembrance...
Earl had all of Huey's lust for power and none of Huey's sure sense of how to use it. Huey had soaked the rich and paid the poor. Earl taxed rich & poor alike. Because of his taxes, cigarettes cost 27? a package, gasoline 29? to 31? a gallon. There was a tax on car parking and even on laundry. Louisiana's per capita income was among the lowest in the nation, but its per capita tax was the highest...
...Uncle Row could remember the days of his slavery, and the time when his part of Texas was rich cotton land. He could remember the Yankees coming down the road "all brass buttons and bayonets," remember the uncertain years while the family that had owned him disintegrated and disappeared. Uncle Row stayed on, farming a little, a good hand with horses and stock. He hunted wildcat, bobcat, polecat, foxes, coons, possums and rabbits. Nights, he took a coal-oil lantern down to the Keechi Creek, baited up with rabbit entrails, fished all night long. Uncle Row could catch catfish, when...
...snow along the craggy frontier. Whenever the gunfire died away, the sharp cold silence was shattered by another sound, the voice of the rebel radio. "Greek soldiers, why are you up here in the mountains slowly freezing to death, dying like trapped mountain goats? Whom are you fighting for? Rich people sitting back comfortably in Athens, avoiding their military service and getting richer and richer? What...
...execution, the military governor of Athens resigned his post in protest. Almost overnight the news reached the northern fron tier. Through the thin cold air of the mountains the loudspeakers of General Markos jeered triumphantly at the government troops: "You see, there is one law for the rich, another for the poor. They executed others for the same thing-but not wealthy Mr. Chryssicopoulos...