Amalia's Story, Chapter Thirty-Four
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #25:
"Lurid harangues"
Never Too Late!
by Angela Thirkell (1956)
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Top Songs of 1956
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Whether through inattention or coincidence an imbalance of marriageable young continues.
Six Leslie and Graham young men remain unattached, while Edith (disqualified as sister or cousin) continues to enjoy the attentions of three other eligibles.
However, life proceeds as Mr. and Mrs. Carter (Lord Crosse’s daughter) rent the Halliday’s Old Manor House and re-introduce the Mixo-Lydians in the person of the maid, Dumka.
Toleration survives lurid harangues on the perfidy of the Slavo-Lydians but not an uprising in the kitchen.
Lady Graham mounts a repeat performance of “intromission” as she and Vicar Choyce settle the matter of the Manor House pew.
Squire Halliday’s last days and funeral are poignantly depicted along with contemporary worries about death duties and break-up of the large estates.
Lord Crosse more or less proposes to Mrs. Morland, who, having been happily widowed for many years, signals her refusal.
But, not to worry, Miss Merriman, factotum to the Pomfrets and Leslies, is happy to accept the proposal of Vicar Choyce, observing, “service is not an inheritance.”

= Louis Jacobucci
"MSPCC To Mark 50th Anniversary"
Dennis-Yarmouth Register, June 04, 1965
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The Cape Cod United Fund has approved the
Golden Anniversary Celebration plans of the MSPCC, one of Its member agencies.
Frank H. Appleton, President of the United Fund, ln a letter to
Louis Jacobucci, District Executive of MSPCC, stated,
"At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Cape Cod United Fund, on motion made and seconded, it was voted to endorse the activities planned by the MSPCC for their 50th Anniversary."
The Cape district of MSPCC was organized ln June, 1915. In recognition of the founding, a celebration banquet will be held at New Seabury Country Club on June 16, 1965. Guest speaker for the event will be Joseph H. Reid, Executive Director ot the Child Welfare League of America. Over 500 invitations have been mailed to Cape residents.
Also noting the Golden Anniversary of the MSPCC, the Hyannis Junior Woman's Club voted to contribute the profits of its 17th Annual Charity Ball to the Cape Cod District, to be used for special care of children and families.
Mr. Appleton further stated ln his letter, "I am sure the Hyannis Junior Woman's Club will have a successful Charity Ball, from which the proceeds are to be donated to the MSPCC Hubbard Fund, a restricted fund which is used for care of children and families. Best wishes and success for your 50th Anniversary."

= Velveteen Andrews
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"The safeguard against tyranny (is) to strengthen individual responsibility"
Doris Lessing, "The Cult of the Individual" (1956)
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= The reaction to the 20th Congress has been expressed in party circles throughout the world in the phrase ‘the cult of the individual’.
= That these words should have been chosen as the banner under which we should fight what is wrong with the party seems to me as a sign of the corruption in our thinking.
= For they suggest that what caused the breakdown of inner-party democracy was an excess of individualism.
= But the opposite is the truth.
= What was bad is not that one man was a tyrant, but that hundreds and thousands of party members, inside and outside the Soviet Union, let go their individual consciences and allowed him to become a tyrant.
= Now we are discussing what sort of rules we should have in the party to prevent the emergence of bureaucracy and dictatorship.
= A lot of worried and uneasy people are pinning their faith in some kind of constitution which will ensure against tyranny.
= But rules and constitutions are what people make them.
= The publication of the Constitution of the Soviet Union, an admirable document, coincided with the worst period of the terror.
= The party rules in the various communist parties are (I believe) more or less the same; but the development of the different communist parties has been very dissimilar.
= I think that this talk about changing the rules is a symptom of the desire in all of us to let go individual responsibility on to something outside ourselves, something on to which we can put the blame if things go wrong.
= It is pleasant to have implicit trust in a beloved leader.
= It is pleasant and comfortable to believe that the communist party must be right simply because ‘it is the vanguard of the working class’.
= It is pleasant to pass resolutions at a conference and think that now everything will be all right.
= But there is no simple decision we can make, once and for all, that will ensure that we are doing right.
= There is no set of rules that can set us free from the necessity of making fresh decisions, every day, of just how much of our individual responsibility we are prepared to delegate to a central body – whether it is the communist party, or the government of the country we live in, be it a communist or a capitalist government.
= It seems to me that what the last thirty years have shown us is that unless a communist party is a body of individuals each jealously guarding his or her independence of judgement, it must degenrate into a body of yes-men.
= The safeguard against tyranny, now, as it always has been, is to sharpen individuality, to strengthen individual responsibility, and not to delegate it.
= DORIS LESSING (London)

= Harriet McCurdy Cameron Hall Jacobucci
"Fire Dept Plans Exams for Vacancies"
The Register, November 04, 1971
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Worcester Area Associates meet Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 6:30 pm at the South Yarmouth Methodist Church for a covered dish supper. Speaker Is Mrs. Harriet Hall.