“People are shopping these days. The stores are crowded. Buyers are intent but not gay. The news of the atomic bomb came as a terrible shock to everybody, and the easiest way to take your mind off it is to buy things.”
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The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
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