New universal direct taxes had to be introduced […] , while the burden of indirect taxes was also made heavier, with new imposts being levied on an ensemble of items ranging from playing cards to wigs.

To cryonicists, the chance of resuscitation is worth the money required to fund cryonic suspension arrangements. If resuscitation proves impossible, they reason, you are no “deader” than you would have been without suspension […]

There is in Central America—or so I believe after four recent visits—a great apprehansion that in the wake of Vietnam the United States is no longer resolved to protect its own security or sovereign borders; that the Soviet Union and its proconsuls in Cuba and Nicaragua are determined to Marxize the region and cut the hemisphere in two; and that the consolidation of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua would be followed inexorably by the collapse of both Central America and Mexico to the revolutionary Left, all the way to the northern Mexican border.

MADAME JOURDAIN: No, it’s all complete rhubarb. MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Dara dara bastonnara! He begins to dance and chant. MADAME JOURDAIN: Don’t think that’s going to make things any clearer.