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...owners sold the farms and moved elsewhere. Most Amish communities forbid the ownership (though not the occasional use) of automobiles, tractors and telephones. Emergency use of electricity may be permitted, but radio and television are not. They farm organically. Their consumption is so inconspicuous that merchants complain about their thrift...
...Connor's world, shrewdness does not count, nor do other traditional virtues such as thrift or planning ahead. The Displaced Person is a complex and appalling tragedy in which country people who think of themselves as hardy "survivors," destroy their own world rather than absorb a Polish refugee who is himself simply trying to survive. Few writers mix comedy and cruelty more offhandedly or more effectively. Witness a redneck farmhand's wife contemplating the Polish family's broken English: "They can't talk. You reckon they'll know what colors even is?" As her hostile...
...picnic with prizes at the Buffalo branch, $50 for a parking fine and towing charge for a New York Fed official, $20.90 for babysitting charges so that a New York member and his wife could attend two dinners. In addition, Patman was disturbed by the Fed's "Thrift" club, in which the system has contributed almost $2,000,000 annually to a kind of mutual-fund program for employees...
Long, long ago-perhaps as far back as the early '60s-patches on worn or torn clothing were a mark of poverty, or at least of thrift. The patch has come a long way since then. Today it is colorful, clever, artistic and even ideological. Whether to hide holes on worn clothing or simply to adorn brand-new apparel-especially denim jeans and jackets-patching is the bright...
...THRIFT, DUTY, SELF HELP and so on. Kitaj ended up as a dissenter from the whole concept. His experience at Lockheed, he reported, proved "a confirmation of the utter boredom I always feel when art and science try to meet-the feeling of very slender accomplishment in those forms of art which pretend to operate scientifically...