FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37  
38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   >>   >|  
to the girl. "Now, the question is, what organization did this money belong to?" She looked triumphantly at Steve Hackett. "It belonged to the Movement." They both looked at her. Steve said finally, "What movement?" She pouted in thought. "That's the only name they call it." "Who's they?" Steve snapped nastily. "I ... I don't know." Larry said, "Well, you already told us your father was a member, Zusanette." Her eyes went wide. "I did? I shouldn't have said that." But she evidently took him at his word. Larry said encouragingly, "Well, we might as well go on. Who else is a member of this Movement besides your father?" She shifted in her chair uncomfortably. "I don't know any of their names." Steve looked down at the school pass in his hands. He said to Larry, "I'd better make a phone call." He left. ------------------------------------- Larry said, "Don't worry about him, Zusanette. Now then, this _movement_. That's kind of a funny name, isn't it? What does it mean?" She was evidently glad that the less than handsome Steve Hackett had left the room. Her words flowed more freely. "Well, Daddy says that they call it the Movement rather than a revolution...." An ice cube manifested itself in the stomach of Lawrence Woolford. "... Because people get conditioned, like, to words. Like revolution. Everybody is against the word because they all think of killing and everything, and, Daddy says, there doesn't have to be any shooting or killing or anything like that at all. It just means a fundamental change in society. And, Daddy says, take the word propaganda. Everybody's got to thinking that it automatically means lies, but it doesn't at all. It just means, like, the arguments you use to convince people that what you stand for is right and it might be lies or it might not. And, Daddy says, take the word socialism. So many people have the wrong idea of what it means that the socialists ought to scrap the word and start using something else to mean what they stand for." Larry said gently, "Your father is a socialist?" "Oh, no." He nodded in understanding. "Oh, a Communist, eh?" Susan Self was indignant. "Daddy thinks the Communists are strictly awful, really weird." Steve Hackett came back into the office. He said to Larry, "I sent a couple of the boys out to pick him up." Susan was on her feet, a hand to mouth. "You mean my father! You're going to arrest him!
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37  
38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

father

 

people

 

Hackett

 

looked

 

Movement

 
revolution
 

evidently

 

killing

 

Everybody

 

member


movement
 

Zusanette

 

convince

 

socialism

 

arguments

 

change

 

shooting

 
arrest
 

fundamental

 

thinking


propaganda

 

society

 

automatically

 

nodded

 

strictly

 

office

 
couple
 
Communists
 

thinks

 
socialists

gently

 

indignant

 

Communist

 
understanding
 

socialist

 

encouragingly

 

shouldn

 

uncomfortably

 
shifted
 

triumphantly


belonged

 

belong

 

question

 

organization

 

finally

 

nastily

 
snapped
 
pouted
 

thought

 

school