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...free enterprise.' The truth is that there are services that can be rendered more effectively by the people acting together. A few more eggheads in the automobile industry to supplant the blockheads who have designed our recent cars would be in our national interest. Who are the madmen who build cars so long they cannot be parked . . . and so powerful that no man dare use the horsepower available...
...between these two "uncultivated" cultures. The contest arises when a bunch of American oilmen arrive in Australia's spinifex country (so named for its tough desert grass). The Australians are astounded by the Americans' ability to set up ice-cream plants in the desert, to work like madmen for oil in a country that probably lacks it and, anyway, needs water more. The Americans, in turn, are baffled by the Australians' capacity for rum and their insistence on the right of man-state-given, if not God-given-not to work too hard...
...Kwame Nkrumah, born a Twi tribesman in a mud-hut village, graduate of Pennsylvania's Lincoln University ('39), leader since 1947 of his country's surge to get independence from the British, struck a higher note: "Do not listen to these madmen who talk to you of cocoa and corruption," he argued. "They simply hide the fact that they do not want independence for our country...
...madman beget madmen," Starbuck declares as the chase after Moby Dick is nearing its end, and as Captain Ahab is firing the crew of the Pequod to a frenzy of excitement. The trouble is that Starbuck does not really see a madman. He sees Gregory Peck...
...Never Again." Fast still had praise for Soviet glories that in his view transcended Stalin, e.g., "the achievements of socialism, the destruction of the Nazi madmen, the goodness and humanism of the Soviet people, the building and rebuilding of the great Soviet land, the leadership of the struggle for peace and the good right hand stretched out to colonial people and oppressed people everywhere. But I must say that if Russia has in me a friend, it also has a severe and implacable critic. Never again will I remain silent when I can recognize injustice, regardless of how that injustice...