Word: tubbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congress has long relied on the postal service as a tub of sweet-and-pungent pork. Instead of using the patronage system, which has hurt morale and impeded efficiency, the corporation could promote on merit. Another major problem has been the Post Office's archaic technical facilities; with construction programs pressured on one side by budget vagaries and on the other by congressional logrolling, it has tended to be more interested in concrete than com puters-though even its buildings are inadequate. The agency envisioned...
...Each Tub Alone...
Within the University, departments like the food services must remain individually within the black without outside assistance. "Each tub stands on its own bottom," says Hurlburt...
...Barbara Garson has been awaited with all the fierce anticipatory noises surrounding a tumbrel arriving at the guillotine. Long before the play's off-Broadway opening last week, an honor guard of coterie intellectuals, including Critic Dwight Macdonald and Yale Drama School Dean Robert Brustein, went into tub-thumping ecstasy over MacBird, which promised a dramatic severing of President Johnson's head. In addition, it capitalized emotionally on a winter of public discontent with L.B.J.-the poll-recorded loss of favor with the electorate, the supposed credibility gap, concern about Viet Nam, Johnson's embroilment with...
...they get what they want. Marat, stabbed by a spastic Charlotte Corday (Glenda Jackson), lies weltering in his tub of blood. The director of the asylum and his guests politely applaud the conclusion of the piece; but the inmates, identifying with their roles, run suddenly amuck. Fighting, biting, ripping, raping, they swarm over the guards and the guests, they leap upon the camera and drag the spectator down into the delirium of a revolution that is suddenly no longer there and then but here, now, always...