Word: tradesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonetheless, privately describe Ne Win's nationalization measures as a shabby trick to strip the Indian community of its property with no compensation at all. Nor is Burma's treatment of its Indian minority an isolated case. In Ceylon, where nearly 700,000 Indian plantation workers and tradesmen live as "stateless persons," the regime has launched a "Ceylonization of trade" campaign. And what that might very well mean is yet another mass exodus of Indians...
Lindner's paintings are violently theatrical; bathed in stagelight, they proffer biting vignettes of the modern world. Each character is an island: giant kew-pie-doll children with pasty faces, strolling tradesmen stolidly strutting with their canes, spreading ladies slickly fitted into a colorful armor of corsets. Lindner's pictorial poseurs hobnob in a funhouse atmosphere where floors that seem to slant up actually slide down and ripple-mirrors reflect limbs as if swollen with elephantiasis...
...particular concern to Langer was the 'rather disgusting performance" of the leaders of medieval society who fled the cities in the face of approaching disaster. "Officials of the towns and the upper clergy fled, professors and students dropped their books, wealthy tradesmen closed their shops," said Langer...
...anything but "current coin of the realm," British industry every Friday has been forking over 15 million little brown packets of pounds, shillings and pence to 60% of the labor force. Friday evening, Mum gets her share. Friday night, pubs, cinemas and dog tracks get .theirs. Saturday morning, tradesmen get theirs. Unfortunately, stickup men usually take theirs early on Friday, and robbers in London alone last year made off with $700,000 worth of lolly. Alarmed by the rising robbery rate throughout Britain, as, bank trucks roam around with their cash loads, Parliament two years ago repealed the Truck...
Beginning about Thanksgiving, family quarrels become fiercer, relations with relatives become more strained, tradesmen assume a forced friendliness, and the dispenser of holiday cheer begins to feel then is not an honestly cheery face to be found anywhere...