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...take into account this month's 50% increase in the transit fare. Nearly three-quarters of the city's population live in families that earn less than $11,236. The bureau's "lower standard"-a subsistence budget allowing for only $1,022 beyond taxes and the utter necessities of life-is now up to $6,771. Yet the average wage for a production worker in the New York region last year amounted to only $6,527. In free translation, the Government's message to New Yorkers is that a majority of them really cannot afford...
...civilization," writes the editor of Attack!, "is founded and rests on violence. Every civilization is directly descended from a conquest; and if it were not for the constant promise of retaliatory violence from the law, me would live every moment at the utter mercy of criminals and thugs...
Even before he was ousted for conspiring against Nikita Khrushchev in 1957, former Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov was not known for his dinner-table loquacity. Now nearing 80, Stalin's oldest colleague warmed up enough at a recent party to utter some pronouncements that had the ring of his late master's voice...
...another column, Baker reported that "we are at NBC News headquarters in Provo, Utah. Chet Huntley's face is in the hands of the cosmeticians. They have massaged its familiar wrinkles and laugh lines into an expression of utter objectivity." Meanwhile in Biloxi, Miss., David Brinkley is having his eyebrows shaved so he can't raise them...
...shock, in the very act of profanation, some sense of the sacred would be reborn and reconfirmed. Opposites imply each other. Grotowski shows an audience the passion of man, his agony, his desolation, his death, and above all the violation of his body and his spirit. By portraying the utter humiliation of man, Grotowski reminds one that no prouder being ever issued from the hand...