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...would lay some cable one day, get drunk, take it out the next, get drunk, and so on ad nauseam. He was eventually fired because he made the system more efficient--be dispensed with the cable altogether. The turgid rhetoric of state propaganda is lampooned in the workers' hypocritical socialist pledges, but the humor does not eclipse more sinister themes: "I like the fact that my compatriots have such vacant and protruding eyes. They fill me with virtuous pride...They harbour no thought--but what power...
...play opens, the future holds nothing but promise for the upper middle class Conways. Still youthful and exuberant, the Conway children dress up in old clothes for the party's charades, joking and laughing. The war is over. Robin is safe. Any unresolved problem presents only hope Made, the socialist, wants to see the coal miners strike end in nationalization. Hazel, the beautiful daughter, looks forward to choosing a husband from among her many suitors; Kay is beginning to write a novel. The family hovers on the verge of a future of unlimited potential...
While everyone in Washington is worried about Grenada's exporting revolution, the island is having enough problems trying to import it. English may still be the first language of the island, but it often comes off second best when it comes to translating socialist slogans. The revolution communicates by billboard in the way that Californians do by bumper sticker, posting its noble but often mind-numbing reminders at almost every road turning and intersection: THE LAND IS OUR WEALTH, EDUCATION IS OUR LIBERATION, WORK HARDER, GROW MORE FOOD, BUILD THE REVOLUTION. With equal alacrity, the Grenadians have adeptly copied...
...Sandinista movement which gained control of the Nicaraguan government in 1979 after deposing U.S. backed Anastasio Somoza. He first took part in guerilla activities in 1958, and spent nine months in prison, in 1977 and 1978. Since the revolution, Borge has played a major role in the Socialist government...
...everybody as if he were their grandfather, clinched the James Watt Hole-in-the-Foot award by telling one of the students in the audience to "come back to me after you've survived a rape," to discuss women's issues. And Eloise Linger, the candidate for the Socialist Workers Party, proved exactly why socialists don't run cities by discussing El Salvador instead of Roxbury...