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...protect their country, had lost face. Many shrines had to rent out space to businesses-some even rented their grounds to carnival operators who staged strip shows. Said one embittered priest in Nagoya of postwar Shintoists: "After a ceremony, they say, 'Hey priest, how much do I owe you?' In the old days the money would have been carefully wrapped in paper as a token of respect...
...hopes to hold the consumer-credit rise to $3 billion for a total of $39 billion. The enormous debt consumers already owe will make the FRB's job easier; repaying 1955's loans will soak up enough money to make people think twice before taking on new debts...
Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store...
...owe my soul to the company store.' " Added a friend: maybe the song strikes home to Americans "because we all live on credit and owe our souls to some sort of company store...
Among readers who fancy vampires, succubi, werewolves and other monsters, a young (35) Californian named Ray Bradbury is regarded as the arrived monster-monger, fit replacement for August Derleth, eldritch statesman of the well-informed witchlover. Author Bradbury may owe even more to John Collier, another veteran djinn-and-bitters addict. Like Mary Wollstonecraft (Frankenstein) Shelley and Bram (Dracula) Stoker, these writers appeal to the middle or relatively uncorrugated brow, rather than the highbrow, who finds more than enough to bite his nails over in the Age of Anxiety without faking up a little more. The highbrow, in fact, whose...