Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...AVRICH'S account of the Kronstadt explosion is, by any standard, a remarkably fair and balanced work. The important point, he understands, is that, in this particular bit of history, there are no clear-cut heroes and villains, no exploiters or toilers or even hypocrites. The sailors were, in effect, demanding the implementation of the government's own political and economic promises; at the outset, at least. they sought no breach with the party, but rather unity on the basis of the programs for which they and the party had struggled for so long. The sailors' echo of Lenin...
...there are still more severe side effects of the Nixon years. The golden days of UFO scares in little California towns are gone. Occasionally a local newspaper will print one housewife's account of how she met the flaming creatures from the sun, but our fears have been relocated. Perhaps the massive 800 page Condon report dealt the death blow to the boom. At any rate, we gaze into the night sky with unaccustomed security these days. The cities hold more dangers in store for the timid...
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S EXPENSE ACCOUNT by Genera/ George Washington and Marvin Kifman, Pic. (ret.). 285 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Techniques. Kitman is the kind of rabid comic who would buy a 1911 Chinese railway bond and then try to call up Chairman Mao to find out how the investment has been doing lately. He decided to look behind the sober smoke screen of Washington's meticulously kept accounts. In a fiendish demonstration of the power of scholarship, he proves, almost convincingly, that the father of his country was also the founder of modern expense-account living...
Elsewhere, according to Kitman, Washington demonstrated his mastery of modern expense-account techniques...