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...other a U.S. study, When Americans Complain ($3.95). Although the U.S. is rich in responsive administrators and procedural safeguards against official abuse, says Gellhorn, the country's channels of complaint are so clogged that citizens either get no hearing or win isolated victories that rarely cure the root causes of their grievances...
...mountains "shall mock/ Our childhood vision--our point can be no more." Of the poem's four stanzas, three are built around colons; they stand, in effect, as equations. If the articulation of the poem's parts seems too elaborative, not sequential enough, these colons may be the root of the evil...
Zimmermann insists that a unionized army would be as strong as any other. As in any civil servants' union, he explained, it would be forbidden to strike. Indeed, its advocates argue the unionization of the army is a healthy sign that democracy has taken root. But what happens if war breaks out during the annual negotiations for a new contract? A 60-day cooling-off period? In officers' mess halls throughout West Germany, the whole idea still produces shudders of horror. After all, the only other unionized armies in Europe are those of Austria and Scandinavia...
...spirit expounded in Chairman Mao's writings." They helped him haul his wares and "did minor repairs in the public toilets." Old Shih, as the Dairen youths affectionately called him, philosophized pungently: "With our night soil ladle, we shall remove all the mire remaining in society and root out revisionism to build a bright new world." As NCNA commented: "Although their hands were smeared with filth, these sanitation workers had the loftiest and purest souls...
Such "signature music" is based on the Madison Avenue conviction that the name of a product can root itself in the subconscious more readily if it is accompanied by an instantly identifiable musical trademark. Jingles are fine for the one-minute spiel, but for the short, hard pitch, signature music is the thing. Thus Siday's eight-note bleeper, played above a sizzling, highballing beat, gets the message across even without the slogan, "You're ahead in a Ford all the way"; his seven-note arrangement for the litany, "You can be sure, if it's Westinghouse...