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This Orwellian vision draws scalding scorn from the liberal economists. "Do you mathematicians expect to be able to see from the main computing center," asks Ivan Malyshev, deputy chief of the Central Statistical Administration, "all our vast territory from the cold rocks of Murmansk to the flaming sun of Kolkhida in the Caucasus, to see how people sow and reap, how every chemical complex functions, how every machine operates? If something goes wrong in Khabarovsk, can you merely press a button and straighten things out? A strange Utopia. Society is not the sum of mathematical zeros and digits...
Satire has always been an aggressively complex response to the world. As employed by the black humorists, it is a response to a world grown mechanized and impersonal, where even stupidity, viciousness and anxiety can seem institutionalized. At its most proficient, their writing takes the step beyond complaint to scorn; beyond alienation to the assertion of the individual; beyond the" absurd to laughter at absurdity. At its worst, their laughter can be shrill, silly, or self-indulgent. It has yet to blow down Jericho, let alone the Book-of-the-Month Club. For the best of the new breed, writers...
Hill said that the article was "untrue," and charged that he was the object of ridicule and scorn because he was listed as an author...
...occasion was a Peking banquet for a 44-man Indonesian delegation headed by Sukarno's Foreign Minister Subandrio. Even in making his proposal, Chou showed Peking's scorn for any form of international organization. China, he said with heavy irony, wants "rival dramas to be staged in competition with that body which calls itself the U.N. How can it be that the U.S. is allowed to stage its own drama, while...
...used to understand by it," and the leading political parties are bent on creating a dictatorship that would make Hitler seem like "an orphan boy." For that reason, Niemöller urged Christians to mock next September's elections by turning in ballots invalidated by written expressions of scorn for the contending parties...