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Veblen believed that modern machinery was the latest expression of this natural instinct; he concluded that refusal to use the maximum machinery was not only economically silly but downright unnatural. The machine's chief enemy, he argued, was a moss-backed array of old-fashioned institutions and traditions - and he set out to blow them apart. In his first and most fascinating book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), he coldly scrutinized the various ways in which the successful businessman struggled to evade his debt to the very machine which had made him rich...
Except for a brief breakdown when Radio Radcliffe stepped into the breach, the Network filled local pipes with a programming that ranged from Beethoven through Gilbert and Sullivan to an array of modern composers...
Wrong Guesser. In 24 years of reporting, including stints for Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror, "Aunt Geneviève" has hung up a few scoops, and a record array of wrong guesses. Her daily routine includes interviews with diplomats every forenoon, and phone calls to "well-informed friends" in London and Geneva every evening. In her elegant Right Bank apartment, she has three telephone lines and a phone in every room...
...Enquirer, unimpressed, whacked him again: "We wonder how highly Pegler would regard this array of experience if it were presented by someone else. . . . We still think that Pegler's rather notable talents are much more usefully applied in fields where his competence and experience are less open to question...
Coach Bill Barclay gave his starting lineup a thorough shuffling for Saturday afternoon's game in Penn's Palestra, but the new array ran into the same late as its predecessors, and the Quakers...