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...Emancipated Spirits. But the greater accomplishment of the Lanny Budd novels is their evocation of the intellectual world in which the New Deal had its being. It is a world divided into good people-writers, painters, musicians, Socialists, New Dealers, honest workingmen, heroic underground warriors, and emancipated spirits generally-and bad people, such as moneygrubbers, gigolos, anti-Semites, businessmen (with exceptions), and of course Fascists and their sympathizers...
...Americans seem scarcely civilized. You are exactly like the Germans under Hitler. . . . Your workingmen are fools who . . . are satisfied with a raise in wages when they should be organizing to overthrow your Government...
...chin with old cronies than work, so he sometimes falls behind schedule, despite prodding from his wife. Then his old cartoons reappear, "redrawn by request." "I couldn't work without talking to people," says Williams defensively. "I always have people here-cattlemen from Texas, publishers from New York, workingmen from Detroit. They kid me when they see me in this big house-I'm pretty untidy and I wear sweaters and jackets. Looks funny to see someone like me in this place." And sometimes the cowhands get a little mad about Williams' making all that money...
...that doctors should look for answers to some unexplored questions: What makes healthy people healthy? Why has the prevalence of intestinal ulcers, once rare, risen so enormously in the 20th Century? Why did the stillbirth rate in Wales, and tuberculosis in Britain, drop sharply during the war? Why do workingmen die of stomach and skin cancer twice as often as professional men? Why do doctors have twelve times as high a death rate from angina pectoris as farm workers...
Just Us Hens. In Manhattan, two men charged with burglarizing a store protested that they were workingmen, had been hired to do the job at 75? an hour...