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AGRICULTURE : "There is . . . a positive evil in these [soil-bank and acreage-retirement] programs: in effect, they reward people for not producing. For a nation that is expressing great concern over its 'economic growth,' I cannot conceive of a more absurd and self-defeating policy than one which subsidizes non-production." Goldwater's solution: "Prompt and final termination of the farm subsidy program...
...York City last week, a manifesto turned up calling for a DEMONSTRATION. It was signed by two relatively unknown representational painters who were fed up with what seemed to them to be the Museum of Modern Art's lopsided patronage of the abstract, the sensational, and even the absurd. The museum, said the document, "has developed the public image of the painter as a madly inspired child, rather than an adult human being...
...such absurd, Dogpatch-like creatures be thought equal to civilized people...
...present condition in Puerto Rico is that Governor Muñoz Marín is, by his own will, imposing upon the people of Puerto Rico and on the Congress of the United States an independence which was never granted, and a 'voluntary association' which is absurd unless independence has been granted...
This combination of subjects indicates a solution to one of the harassing problems of this year’s program—admissions. Although it would be absurd to take the actual decisions away from the seminar leader, it is clear that if students are to contribute to understanding of more than a single field, they should have a strong background in related disciplines. The contact between these fields and a central subject can serve both to relate an individual’s own studies to other areas and to give him a sense of the deep interrelation which will...