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...holiday mood, Picasso swept his new quarters free of archaic coins and archeological treasures, painted the walls bright green to soften the Riviera sunlight, locked himself in with an armload of paints and brushes, and started to work. For eight hours a day, for almost four months, he worked...
...first Wallace issue the book section, famed in the days of Francis Hackett and Edmund Wilson, plans to review books quickly and earnestly for the busy, peppy progressive who will have much to think and talk about. Dyed-in-the-old New Republic liberals would miss the accustomed archaic intellectuality...
...John Lewis went to jail, all organized labor might strike in sympathy. Said A.F.L. President William Green, a usually mild man: "The workers of the nation resent this action on the part of the Government. . . . All American labor unites with the mine workers in condemning this reversion to the archaic philosophy of government by injunction." A general strike was a possibility also if the injunction was retained. In either event, the mines would stay closed...
...Corey report met with praise, and with some apprehension. Professor Arthur T. Jersild of Teachers College liked the report's "emphasis on . . . [the] many kinds of ability. . . . An I.Q. of 200 is useless if it is fettered by archaic habits of thought." But he raised a point which had already bothered the committee, "the hazards to the individual of being singled out as an outstandingly able person," and added a personal misgiving: "whether a roster of elite human beings . . . is wholesome and wise from a democratic point of view...
Authority & the Inner Light. For most modern Quakers, the schism's cause was as archaic as broad-brimmed hats and grey bonnets. But in the early 19th Century, winds of doctrine blew hot and strong upon the Society of Friends...