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...nasty blot on the good name of socialism in Eastern Europe: the waiting time for purchasing a private automobile is frequently longer than a five-year plan and seldom shorter than the Berlin blockade. Only those with access to foreign currency seem to be able to drive away from a showroom with a new car minutes after walking in. For humbler folk who have the cash to spend (but precious little to buy), the wait can drag on for as long as seven years. Although the Polish government is trying hard to meet consumer needs, the fierce demand for wheels...
...fact, not many blue-collar workers or their families take part in aerobic sports. Not all motorcyclists are blue collar, but almost all bicyclists and runners are white collar. In snow country, the line between white-collar crosscountry skiers and blue-collar snowmobilers sparks with animosity, and is seldom crossed. Factory workers are nearly as sedentary as bank presidents now, but clearly the conviction persists from the arduous old days that sweating is what privileged toffs...
...incomprehensible: the canal was completed six months ahead of schedule and below the estimated cost. This massive excavation of the past brims with such evidence of how far we have progressed-and regressed-in six decades. As he so skillfully did in his book about the Brooklyn Bridge, McCullough seldom fails to make the reader feel like a sidewalk superintendent of history...
Then Beth met Greg singer. He was premed, brilliant, shy and seldom left his room for a destination other than the Bio labs. On the rare occasions that he went to a party, he would walk in, count the number of men there, divide it by the number of the women there, and compute the ratio. Then he'd smile at his host and flee. Beth was going through a premed stage at the time and she would often study with Greg. She owed her high grades that semester not to any scientific aptitude but to her desire...
...despite his straight and narrow career plans, he had an awful lot of trouble dealing with his personal life. Once every two or three months, he would call Beth and spew out all his troubles, usually woman-related. In between the desperate late night phone calls, they would seldom see one another. He always had a paper to write or a book to read, never time to listen to Beth. After one of their more intense crisis-resolution conversations, they went for a walk by the Charles and watched the sun rise. He took her hand and she wondered...