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...authoritarian economy appeals to many human instincts. It offers stability and security at the expense of freedom and a greater degree of economic (though not political) equality than capitalism. It can provide full employment by creating a surfeit of make-work, low-productivity (and thus lowpaying) jobs. It keeps prices stable by fixing them, almost invariably at high levels in terms of real income. Yet even the meanness of living standards in such a system may have a certain attraction for millions of people outside those countries who are repelled or surfeited by commercial values. Distrust of money lies deep...
...museum is constructing a diorama portraying the exploits of Frontiersman George Rogers Clark. A group in Chicago is restoring several turn-of-the-century mansions that were once owned by such business giants as Merchant Marshall Field and Railroad Car Manufacturer George Pullman. Downstate Illinois is threatened with a surfeit of Lincolnania. About 25 communities plan to commemorate Lincoln, including Springfield, where the state is setting up a lavish $600,000 sound-and-light show in the Old State Capitol Building that will recount key events in his life...
...motivations for engaging in Extension studies are too numerous to assess adequately, but the popular misconception ascribing them to dilettante-ish dabbling in a surfeit of spare time has, life most stereotypes, never been true. Today some 6,000 people draw sustenance and substance, practical exercise and professional preparation, daily enriching their lives and increasing their options, from 150 courses and seminars offered at accessible times by the Commission on Extension Studies, with the support of Greater Boston's finest institutions: the bright high-school student who wants to pursue a subject unavailable in secondary school, or advance further...
Readers who ignored Burgess's cheeky advice may remember that the eponymous poet, F.X. Enderby, was a fairly unprepossessing fellow. But due to a surfeit of British cooking and intractable intestines, he frequently emitted noxious sounds from both ends. He lived, moreover, in animal squalor, reclusively scribbling in the bathroom and tossing sections of his poem The Pet Beast into his otherwise unused bathtub...
...laughter. They take a line like "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition" and turn it into a six-minute joke when Cardinal Fang bursts in shouting, "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" and proceeds to torture his victims wih a comfy chair and a soft pillow. During the surfeit of Mary Queen of Scots a few years ago, Monty Python produced a skit that reduced the enigmatic Scotswoman's appeal to its formulaic minimum--a long series of sounds as Mary Queen of Scots is battered to death until on gruff soldier's voice murmurs, "Is she dead...