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People Suffer. It is this pattern of self-inflicted frustration that gives The Little Hotel its coherence and links to earlier Stead novels like The House of All Nations (1938), an onslaught on the venal world of high finance, and The Man Who Loved Children (1940), a chronicle of domestic agony that Clifton Fadiman once described as "Little Women rewritten by a demon." The author's tone has mellowed, however. As Mrs. Trollope, the only character who manages to free herself from the bondage of the bankbook, observes, "People suffer and we call them names; but all the time...
...record portion of the seminar last Monday night, O'Neill said the Nixon administration has been "corrupt and venal," and he called for the president's resignation in the "best interest of the country...
...parts of the address that O'Neill later put on the record, O'Neill said that the Nixon administration has been "corrupt and venal," and he called for Nixon's resignation in the "best interests of the country...
...amused. Last summer a Washington-based local of the 325,000-member United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters fired off an indignant letter to the Washington Star-News complaining that "we cannot accept the discourteous connotation that is derived by the use of our appellation to describe unscrupulous and venal men." Last week a longtime plumber (since 1915) named George Meany declared: "Plumbers are craftsmen, proud of helping build America. The so-called White House 'plumbers' are felons and that's what they ought to be called." A Seattle master plumber named Reginald G. Anderson, 35, felt...
...internal repression and enforced domination of neighboring peoples. Soviet citizens still have no secure civil liberties, 40 years after the Soviet government adopted a new constitution that said they could be safely extended even to counter-revolutionary classes. Soviet "socialism"--the administration of industry by a small and often venal class of bureaucrats--is a hollow mockery of the Bolsheviks' dream of industry run for and by its workers. And Soviet foreign policy, far from the Bolshevik-professed support of struggles for freedom everywhere, consists largely of an extension to eastern Europe of the repression visited on citizens...