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...there is a far greater public demand for male choruses than for female choruses. Concert fees are a good indication: HGC can bring in top fees of $1500 or $2000 or a single concert, fees which enable it to do more extensive touring than RCS, whose top fees are seldom more than a third of these figures...
Flannery O'Connor is seldom compassionate. She means it about that perpetual shot in the head. Her quarrel with people is that they cannot or will not see the wonder and terror of their existence. "Do you ever look inside and see what you are not?" shouts a crippled daughter at her bovine mother...
...Queens where William Casey grew up called him Cyclone because his angular body seemed to be constantly in motion. The nickname still fits Casey, who is now chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. His seven months in office have been filled with a bustle that the agency had seldom known in its first 37 years...
Informers are seldom used as witnesses in court, both Donner and Turner said, because "surfacing" an informer would mean his agent would then be forced to recruit another informer. Informers themselves, once they have accepted their status, are often reluctant to give it up, because doing so would mean the end of their regular salary payments, which in some cases have been as high as $75 a week...
...critics, he writes, demand "the sacrifice of 18 million people to a harsh totalitarian rule." In what ways is the North "totalitarian"--the word soon loses all meaning--compared to the police state of the South? At another point, Ulam writes, "A totalitarian regime, especially a Communist one, seldom has much difficulty in repressing a budding guerrilla movement....An authoritarian non-Communist regime can sometimes deal with an incipient revolt with the same massive retaliation technique....A democratic country simply cannot have recourse to such methods." One wonders if Ulam has heard of saturation bombing. Does he read the newspapers...