Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶A drastic boost in purchase tax, mostly on necessaries. Ironing boards, pot scourers, pastry boards, kitchen scales and shopping baskets, untaxed for the last nine years, will henceforth pay 30%. Items formerly taxed at 25%, e.g., bicycles and toothpaste, will now pay 30%; those at 50%, e.g., cars, TV...
More than 6,000 readers wrote to thank Réaltiés a year ago when it ran an analysis of the nation's economic and political stagnation called "Where Is France Heading?" Its article, "Why Do Five Million Frenchmen Vote Communist?" (TIME, June 30, 1952), reprinted throughout...
This unhappy tale is told in the first person, a technique that fails because the author predicates a low intellectual ceiling yet a high level of sensibility for Max Harper, and systematically violates both. He contradicts the hero's simplicity by putting such high-flown ideas in his head...
Peter Kane Jr., 45, is a familiar figure around Honolulu. For the past 14 years he has been a saxophone player in the municipal Royal Hawaiian Band, and in his gleaming white uniform he is a sight to see as the band goes marching by. Kane (pronounced Connie) is the...
In the July 11 issue we read of an uneducated waif, Harold M. Dunn, who in 33 months under duress collaborated with Communism, later confessed and received a sentence of eight years at hard labor. In the same section a highly educated college graduate, Winston Burdett, who without duress-seemingly...