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...something also is wrong if the alternative which presents itself is self-righteous, destructive action motivated by personal aggrandizement or hostility or even only by sullen discontent," he continued...
Moonlight & Shadows. From the sullen cities of Serbia and Croatia to the sunny villages of Dalmatia prices are the prime topics of conversation in Yugoslavia. Resort operators grumble that soaring costs will dampen the $90 million-a-year tourist trade. The cost of living, up 19% last year, spiraled another 9% in 1965's first quarter. The hardest hit was food, which has risen an average 30% in the past year; such items as beef, pork, apples, potatoes and top-quality slivovitz (plum brandy) have jumped between 50% and 100%. Prices have also risen for everything from haircuts...
...dumb as Europeans liked to think, but France was still an unexplored territory. And with prices low compared to the U.S., the early tourists didn't care too much if the garçon sneered at what they knew was a very generous tip, or if a sullen taxi driver overcharged them...
...blue bus hissed open and 120 members of the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet filed into the waiting room at Paris' Le Bourget Airport. Once they were inside, one of the troupe's two "bodyguards" grimly stationed himself at the main exit. As he did, a young, sullen-faced dancer in an ill-fitting grey suit drifted away from the group. Then, suddenly hurrying his pace, he disappeared into the swarm of travelers. The second bodyguard gave chase, frantically pawed his way through the crowd until he found the dancer hiding behind a pillar...
...curtain of suspicion separates the white from the Negro community; but walking streets of Selma and Montgomery is not like in Harlem or Chicago's South Side. You no sullen or threatening stares. Centuries open oppression have implanted a different ; black faces either turn down and search sidewalk as you pass or probe your own face, for clues...