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“In the documentary The Other Half of the Sky, Shirley MacLaine says, ‘You see our eyes opening: Communism isn’t negative, repressive, rigid. You see us interacting with Chinese women on a laughing basis, and you see the overwhelming sense of guilt in us that we’d been taught that Communism was bad. And then you see us coming out of the other end of the tunnel asking questions about the Chinese way and our way and wondering, What’s true?’ ” (From an interview with Shirley MacLaine in Play girl, Sept. 1974.) She has seen totalitarianism, and it works.

Government did it, according to 48% of those asked by Gallup’s pollsters about the main cause of inflation. A marked improvement in economic literacy since 1972, when only 39% blamed government, not to mention 1959, when only 14% blamed government. The new President concurs.

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“In the documentary The Other Half of the Sky, Shirley MacLaine says, ‘You see our eyes opening: Communism isn’t negative, repressive, rigid. You see us interacting with Chinese women on a laughing basis, and you see the overwhelming sense of guilt in us that we’d been taught that Communism was bad. And then you see us coming out of the other end of the tunnel asking questions about the Chinese way and our way and wondering, What’s true?’ ” (From an interview with Shirley MacLaine in Play girl, Sept. 1974.) She has seen totalitarianism, and it works.

Government did it, according to 48% of those asked by Gallup’s pollsters about the main cause of inflation. A marked improvement in economic literacy since 1972, when only 39% blamed government, not to mention 1959, when only 14% blamed government. The new President concurs.