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...plant production and expansion would be greatly accelerated by the motive of patriotism; that military training and conscription might be introduced; men of ability brought to defense service; villagers trained, as in China, to make war goods. "India," said Snow, "would lift up her head, shake off her inferiority complex, and get in tune with the rest of the world...
...literally no limit to the things he can create on the screen. He can set forth anything from a world in evolution to the whirling of electrons invisible to the human eye. He can produce a mosquito big enough to tower over a village. . . . He can get inside a complex machine, slow down its action, explain its operation to apprentices with a clarity impossible in any other medium...
...beautiful in all that was most immediately useful to a rural civilization. The work of men's hands became "a common language of hand and eye," with marked divergences of idiom-the New Englander's "downright pleasure in stripped forms and beautifully finished plain surfaces," the more complex art of figurehead carving, the decorative designs of the Pennsylvania Germans which (derived from the manuscript paintings of medieval monasteries) gave expression to "all the great ceremonial relationships...
...generation of jokesters grew up to keep legend and complex alive. Some of the stories were shrewd psychology, like the one about the Little Rock man who tried to get a job in Manhattan, was asked where he was from, said: "Arkansas. Now laugh, damn you." Others, like the Uncle Fud and Aunt Dudie gags of Cinemactor Bob Burns, were sheer libel and humiliating ridicule. All of them gave Arkansas the shakes...
...Arkansas' inferiority complex, the war boom was just what the psychiatrist ordered. Arkansans found the whole U.S. grateful for the bauxite mines (for aluminum). Their industrialists snagged $400,000,000 in war contracts. Arkansans bustled off to war jobs with lifted chins and level eyes...