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...fact and a force never died, and it is now vigorous and growing. But as a conscious and proudly defended outlook on public affairs, as a philosophy of life and government, it was driven underground for a hundred years, laughed out of the schools, driven like an old hag in a gunnysack from the glittering and shifting fashion show of ideas...
Western Europe, and Japan too, are hag-ridden with fears that their hard-won recovery might be crushed between the Iron Curtain and a U.S. tariff wall. Since V-J day, Western Europe, encouraged by the U.S., has increased its productive capacity well above prewar; at the same time, its traditional markets, notably in Russia and China, have all but disappeared. In 1953, Dutchmen, French and Germans sell Eastern Europe barely one-half, and buy only a quarter, of what they did in 1938. Japan's trade with the Chinese mainland, which accounted for 21% of all Japanese foreign...
Cool as Fuji. In another, more typical Akutagawa story, an unemployed servant is horrified to find an old hag yanking the hair from a dead fishwife to make a wig. "If she knew I had to do this in order to live, she probably wouldn't care." the hag explains. "Are you sure?" asks the servant mockingly. "Then it's right if I rob you. I'd starve if I didn't." And he strips off her clothes and kicks her roughly down among the decaying corpses...
Last Respects. In Salyersville, Ky., Moonshiner Clyde Joseph, 32, charged with murdering 63-year-old Hager Joseph during an argument about a still, told police: "I hated awful bad to kill Uncle Hag. He was a good...
...boys from priests who spend nine years in darkness studying the tribal rituals. The priests, called mamas, teach that women are evil-but a necessary evil, because they provide men with food. Thus embittered against women, boys are initiated into a reluctant sexual role by a 60 year-old hag, and then sent out to seek wives...