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...Frost will discuss chiefly the third class this evening, and will attempt to explain whether wisdom expressed in one's writing is the quality most to be desired in a person who produces creative literature...
...Their object was to find out just what AAA was going to make them do to share in the $400,000,000 to $500,000,000 annual bounty under the new Soil Conservation Act. To Memphis went Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, to Chicago Assistant Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson, to explain things: The Government meant to take 30,000,000 out of 300,000,000 acres normally devoted to soil-depleting crops (cotton, corn, wheat) and put them into soil-conserving crops (alfalfa, soya beans). Farmers would probably be paid 75? to $1 an acre for planting soil-conserving crops...
...what faith the Untouchables should turn for "equality of status and treatment," Dr. Ambedkar did not hasten to explain. Since he was reported dallying with Mohammedanism, Christian leaders in India exhibited pious skittishness. Declared the National Christian Council of India: ''The harvest is ripe for the gathering in many quarters and we urge that volunteer bands be sent forth to gather...
Thus the body of science is like a pyramid. The broad base rests on sense impressions. As one proceeds farther & farther from sense impressions, fewer & fewer systems are necessary to explain Nature, since each system explains more. Thus mechanics and heat are merged when heat is revealed as molecular motion. But this is far from the pyramid's base; a hand dipped in hot water feels heat, not motion. The apex of the pyramid, not yet reached, would be a single system containing the terms necessary to describe all phenomena...
...writer of "The Foxes" has not sacrificed his art or his pleasure on the altars of fame and true greatness. He has no pretensions. He does not attempt to explain life or to escape it, he presents it as he sees it, with a quiet grace and charm that is always captivating. The Negro dialect is presented echoicly without the slightest attempt at humor. The work is a lyrical pastoral, delicately beautiful. One must struggle to speak prosaicly of it when inevitably there is a rhapsody on the tip of one's tongue...