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...quality of goods and the recent failure to build houses or to replace obsolescent railroad equipment are considered, the decline has been even more precipitous. Money that formerly went into dwellings and the making of machines for producing articles that could be enjoyed is now funneled off by Government command into industrially sterile armaments and showy public monuments. Before the War only 5% of the national income was spent on armaments-and that was a time when Colonel House was reporting that Berlin presented a spectacle of "militarism run stark mad." Today one-fourth of the national income goes...
...some reason have not produced the consistently superior quality of work which would raise them to the very top, they have contributed much that is worthy of attention. Vivaldi, for instance, though primarily a violin virtuoso whose love of flash and dexterity often carried him to vacuous extremes, had command of form and gift for thematic invention admired even by Bach who borrowed extensively from his works. The Longy School faculty concert tonight at Agassiz Theatre will present Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"--decidedly worth hearing as a typical example of the formal clarity and facility of this less familiar music...
...gift should be administered by a commission which would command the respect not only of our own people but of all people." Mr. Neylan named Cordell Hull, Henry Morgenthau, Charles Evans Hughes, Herbert Hoover, James H. Perkins (National City Bank...
...original Freud disciple who quarreled with Dr. Freud over personal problems and psychoanalytic theory 28 years ago, founded a rival psychoanalytic system. Adolf Hitler, said Dr. Jung, "belongs in the category of the truly mystic medicine man. . . When I have a patient [who believes he is] acting under the command of a higher power [see p. 18], a power within him . . . I dare not tell him to disobey. . . . He won't do it if I do tell him. ... All I can do is attempt . . . to induce the patient to behave in a way less harmful to himself and society...
...elephants amused Vag no end. Maybe it was their huge strength that attracted him, or their soft and sensitive cars. But whatever it was, he loved to watch them eat peanuts out of his hand, and do amazing tricks at the trainer's command. But as Billy seemed so restless, Vag moved on into the big arena, to see the real show. Just as the sound of music, cracking whips, pistol shots, and cannons came to his car, Billy plucked at his coat. "Gee, I don't feel so good. Let's sit down a while. I don't want...