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...letters to the editor of Pravda serve as an important forum for Soviet citizens to air pet peeves, make suggestions and scold their less virtuous countrymen. "Every day in the school snack bar, Sasha gets change from a five-ruble bill," wrote a schoolteacher from the Moscow region earlier this year, complaining about how children today do not appreciate the value of a hard-earned ruble. "The parents aren't interested in how their children spend the remaining money." A lieutenant colonel stationed in Lithuania urged parents not to send money to their army sons, already well cared...
...days, you might sigh, when an hour was 45 minutes and sometimes 90, and when people ate with spoons, and butter-knives were but a dream in Shreve, Crump of Low's darkest recesses. But if Alvin Toffler heard you he would scold, consigning you to the First Wave, which began with the original harvest. For Toffler is a visionary, looking out to sea at that big comber waiting to smash the sandcastles of today--this Third Wave, the biggest, most powerful, most blessed of all. "The Third Wave," he notes in the introduction, "is for those who think...
...social precariousness is the last thing one could expect to meet in a Chardin; indeed, one can hardly imagine him working without the conviction that his way of life was immutable-that there would always be nurses to make beef tea, scullions to bargain for chickens, and governesses to scold the children; that the kitchen skimmers and casseroles and spice pots that he painted, over and over again, were in some important sense as durable as the Maison Carrée or the Colosseum...
Along this unusual journey he once welcomed Neville Chamberlain's attempt to win peace by accommodation. It was a rude but enduring lesson for Nitze. He became the insistent intellectual scold arguing for greater American strength. He directed policy planning at the State Department, served eight years in the Pentagon, including a term as Secretary of the Navy, then was a SALT negotiator for five years in Geneva. Today, at 72, Nitze is a large part of the firepower against SALT...
...recent pro-Sadat tilt. Said Irwin Goldenberg, president of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation-Council: "Carter is making out Begin to be the obstacle. That's not right or fair." Added Hyman Bookbinder, Washington lobbyist for the American Jewish Committee: "It was a mistake for Carter to scold Israel. We request that our Administration show some patience during these difficult days...