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...fast tongue can escape being overwhelmed by this pair, even though, as the old saying goes, a fool can ask ten questions while a wise man answers one. Sometimes an affable Brinkley eases up their questioning: "We've become aware of very bad public reaction if we seem rude and aggressive...
...Rizzo!" cried a woman in the crowd. "We don't want you as mayor." It was one of the few even slightly rude moments in a remarkably even-tempered, almost genteel campaign. It was also prophetic. Last week, in his quest to be Philadelphia's first black mayor, W. Wilson Goode reaped 97% of the city's black vote and took the primary by a margin of 7%. With a 65.6% turnout, the primary, like Chicago's bitter mayoral bout last month, evidenced emerging black power at municipal polls...
...Neighbors, situations can always get worse, and funnier. Beeler's son Tony, a nearsighted weight lifter, defends his mother's honor by slugging a rude Millville cop. This, in turn, makes it more difficult for Tony to court Eva, Bullard's buxom 13-year-old daughter. Bullard's nasty son Junior gets hold of Cousin Rev's pistol and is transformed into a menacing big shot ("It was funny how carrying a gun made you feel as if you were dreaming"). In Hornbeck, Beeler's daughter Bernice comes home from the big city bragging...
...recent "poor Jeane" statement, endorsed by the majority editorial above, errs seriously in unilaterally dismissing such forms of dissent. Shouting down a public official can be rude and intolerant, even detestable, but it occasionally can be a legitimate form of political expression. Such is the case when opponents have no other means of gaining significant public attention--and particularly when the public figure in question has so blatantly disregarded the principles of freedom and tolerance as to invite similar behavior...
Since the beginning of this year, the pace of reform has quickened. Hardly a day goes by that newspapers do not publish photographs of happy peasants clutching fistfuls of cash from increased-productivity bonuses. In Peking, store clerks, who used to be slow and often rude, besiege shoppers with advice. The reason: many have signed contracts linking wages to sales. Says the English-language China Daily: "Everybody in the country, except the lazy, supports the application of the principle, 'He who works more, earns more...