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...taxation: "The ancient kings took taxes from the people as bees take honey -without harming the flowers. Indeed, the flowers multiplied. The new rajahs take honey from the people in such a way that they cause pain. The flowers droop in sorrow...
...fatalistic concept of the omnipotent state and the omnipotent fate." Said he: "You of Brazil and we of my country do not say that this philosophy shall not be held: that peoples may not return to that unenlightened system of tyranny, if they wish. We would feel a great sorrow for them, but we would respect their right to choose such a system. Here is the key to our policy-the right to choose...
...supposed to win favor was not indicated. Great Britain remained officially dumb as well, although the opposition Labor Party denounced the French. Unlike Red China ("a defiance of world opinion") and East Germany ("an atomic crime!"), the Soviet Union merely expressed its "regret" in tones that indicated more sorrow than anger. On a visit to India, Red Boss Nikita Khrushchev took the Sahara detonation in stride, remarked casually that he still believed "France and President de Gaulle also want a relaxation in tensions...
...Early sorrow, in the death of her mother and two brothers while she was in her 203, shadowed Compton-Burnett's life and doubtless her fiction. A lonely woman, especially since the death of her companion, Journalist Margaret Jourdain, in 1951, she is no recluse. She is a theatergoer and relishes the Angry Young Men. Modern art, on the other hand, baffles her: "Recently I went to an exhibition of sculpture and saw what I thought was a swordfish. But I was told it was a family going out for a walk." Actually, this is a rather apt description...
Strike for a Kingdom, by Menna Gallic. Welsh coal miners strike, and so does a murderer in this sorrow-laced, comic novel by a woman who writes well...