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...after page 25 Mr. Murphy seldom appears and Buckminster Fuller jumps from housing to Einstein's theory (with an aside on the pernicious effect of lullabies), lambasts finance capital and advances a provocative comparison between primitive superstitions and the contemporary control of opinions. He believes that money will soon be based on the "energy dollar," that power will soon be transmitted by radio, that all basic industries in the U. S. will be socialized within a decade...
Despite its brutal theme, Horns For Our Adornment shows an underlying sympathy for its characters which, by comparison with the unadulterated nihilism of Celine (TIME, Aug. 29), makes Sandemose seem buoyant with human feeling. This quality to some readers may be as shocking as the author's merciless realism...
...wanted an explanation of F. D. R.'s popularity. May I draw a little comparison to help you to the solution...
...such is probably due to the fact that most of the humans in the cast seem dispirited in comparison with the live stock...
Three years ago, with an angry blast at California's then new 15% income tax law and a comparison of tax collectors to gangsters & gunmen, William Randolph Hearst changed his legal residence from California to New York. Lately, Mr. Hearst has been having his prodigiously scrambled possessions audited, consolidated, made liquid by a new set of exchequer chancellors (TIME, March 14, et ante). Last week, for reasons best known to his tax experts, William Randolph Hearst wrote a letter to Assessor W. M. Hollister of San Luis Obispo County, Calif. announcing that as of January 1 he had returned...