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Where will it end? Will we soon get "Lola (Likes Pepsi-Cola)," "Who'll Unstop the Drain," "Goodnight Sweetheartburn Goodnight", or as Saturday Night Live has suggested "Hey Hey You You (Leggo My Eggo...

Author: By James E. Canning, | Title: It's So Cheesy | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

...exile and are not working for the Junta. (By the way, most of these Chilean economists were not direct students of Friedman, not that it matters.) The issue is not all that black and white. If you were a plumber in Franco Spain and were called to unstop plugged-up toilets in a political prison, would you refuse to do that because it would shore up the system? The moral issues of collaboration are not all that clear cut. People might think that they are working for Chile even while they are working for the Junta. They might be mistaken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chile Advisor | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

...perfectly rational people, always knowing right from wrong and exactly where they were going. She writes of Lord Haw-Haw: "He should have recognized that the words he had been saying since 1927 were. 'Evil, be thou my good.' But he would not open his eyes or unstop his ears, and he stood fast and chose damnation." This makes HawHaw sound like Faust, when he was actually a miserable, shabby, bewildered, compulsive, witless and pathetic little fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Chose Damnation | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

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