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...friendly ideas of their own, arresting dozens, expelling scores from their universities. To stamp out religion and give new meaning to socialism, Ulbricht introduced "socialist name-giving" ceremonies to replace baptism, "socialist marriage" rituals to replace church weddings. Orders went out to force thousands of private storekeepers and handicraft shops into state-run cooperatives. More orders were issued to build a fire under the peasants who still largely declined to join the collective farms...
Scotch & Politics. Lopoldville had the look of a foreigners' town; Indonesian captains and Swedish colonels strolled the sidewalks, putting their U.N. salaries into snail, pâté and wine dinners at the few remaining good restaurants or into the mass-produced ivory "handicraft" souvenirs spread on the sidewalks by tall Hausa hawkers from the north. Influence peddlers, spies and quick-money operators were flocking in from abroad; an American opened the "Afro-Negro Bar," where U.N. officials, newsmen and merchants crowded in to drink Scotch and argue politics amid the din at the bar while a Nigerian band...
...long-handled, American-made broom, the ambassador's wife showed the sweeper how to use it so that the dust, instead of flying into the air, stayed in a tidy pile. Then, discovering that such brooms were not available in India, Mrs. Bunker marched off to an Indian handicraft cooperative, displayed her broom and urged them to turn out a sample line using native materials. To push the project along, she paid much of the cost herself...
Kaysen stated that the "soulful" corporation represented "the industrial revolution applied to capitalism." He drew an analogy between the turn from a "learned handicraft to a rationalized technique" in the industrial revolution and the growing emphasis on the "professionalization of management function" replacing "intuitive management" in the modern corporation...
...Work of Handicraft. Divided into classical and modern sections, the show opened with 25 exhibits, drew hordes of admiring students and scores of professors who were torn by mixed emotions. In Suárez' opinion, the modern section was a bit of a flop: "A chuleta, to be worthy, must bear the imprint of the student's personality and be a work of Spanish handicraft...