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Even the once miserable Japanese farmer, who traditionally sold his daughters into prostitution to tide the family over bad times, now equips his wife with gleaming appliances and works his tiny fields with a motor plow. In the big cities, housemaids, who 20 years ago lived in something approaching involuntary servitude, are now apt to carry a transistor radio tucked away in their handbags, may even be putting a few dollars a month into mutual funds...
...discovered a new way to escape. Most talented of these was the 23-year-old worker who last week packed his wife into the front seat of a five-ton dump truck, got up speed along darkened side streets paralleling the frontier, then roared out at 40 m.p.h. to plow through the wall, scattering Vopos and broken concrete in all directions...
...Whoever will not be the hammer will in history be the anvil . . . The sword was always the precursor of the plow, and if one speaks at all of human rights, then war deserves in this single case the highest right . . . Every healthy folk sees in the acquisition of territory nothing sinful but something natural...
Teacher Slosson never even knew Student Norville personally. Now he thinks Norville is a pretty terrific fellow himself. "Gifts are often given in a professor's name," he says, "but for a specific educational purpose. This is for me." Slosson intends to "plow this gift back into education"-the college education of his nine grandchildren. Best of all. says he, "Norville has set a precedent. His generosity might make it possible for other professors to receive such gifts...
...aristocrats are now hard to find, the message has little relevance, and what remains is a sometimes amusing, sometimes touching vignette of the Russia of Alexander I. The camera follows a huge, strong, good-natured but deaf and dumb peasant, played by Anatol Kochetkov, who is taken from his plow to serve at his mistress' city house. Her whims and the cowardice of the other servants then proceed to ruin his romances, first with a peasant girl, and then with Mumu...