Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonial Revolt. The truth is that in the satellites the Russian rulers find themselves bedeviled by the same problem of restive colonial peoples that plagues the rest of the postwar world. Because Russia is less industrialized than several of the satellites, the Russians have reversed the classic pattern of colonialism by exploiting the satellites' skilled labor force instead of their raw materials, but it is exploitation nonetheless. Any gains the satellites have made have not been conferred on them by more "moderate" Russian leaders, but won by themselves...
Writes Author Fast of these well-heeled Red-liners: "I would hesitate to write this scene in a novel, for it has no sane justification except its truth. This was a handful in one room but all over the nation the mental-revolutionaries, the parlor-pinks, the living-room warriors, the mink-coated allies of the working class wept that people like myself had betrayed the holy cause of Communism-but at least I know what I stepped away from...
...toreador pants and bare midriff, nor the American girl in a bikini chased from the Fountain of Trevi. But Communist newspapers raised a hue and cry about "clerical intolerance," and some of Italy's leading non-Communist papers joined in. Said Turin's liberal La Stampa: "The truth is, not many Italians are horrified by the sight of a girl in shorts." Added the largest newspaper in Italy, Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera, "They are proposing tourism in long pants and hard collars. They will not prevail...
MOST Americans think of housemaids as they visualize the noble redskin-a monument in the old days but a vanished American in 1957. Nothing could be farther from the truth. After a decade of decline, the number of household helpers is rising again, has climbed 50% in the last few years to 1,971,000 chambermaids, laundresses, cooks and cleaning women, another 50,000 butlers and valets-to say nothing of that uniquely American profession, the dollar-an-hour baby sitter. Today's maid shortage is a scarcity of financial plenty. For every U.S. woman who has a maid...
...considered a man of distinction because I write books. The truth is, we don't deserve it." Cozzens regards most of his fellow writers as softies. Says he: "The Old Man and the Sea could have run in Little Folks magazine. Under the rough exterior of Hemingway, he's just a great big bleeding heart. Sinclair Lewis was a crypto-sentimentalist and a slovenly writer who managed a slight falsification of life in order to move the reader. Faulkner falsified life for dramatic effect. It's sentimentality disguised by the corncob. I can't read...