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...Freeman maintains in a recent New York Times Magazine article that "the Kennedy Administration is already beginning to show concrete results in its effort to rid the country of the hobgoblin of farm surplus that has plagued the taxpayer and haunted the farmer, off and on, for thirty years." In short, he claims that the basic problem is the crop surplus. This view, despite its widespread acceptance, is demonstrably wrong...
...more than a cluster of hill villages and the Forum a swampy marketplace, the proud and pleasure-loving Etruscans ruled Italy from the Tiber to the Po. In the end, the Roman legions crushed the loose confederation of Etruscan city-states and razed their walls. Etruria's bizarre hobgoblin world of superstition, ritual and magic provided the folk mythology from which poets from Virgil to Dante evoked their images of Hades and Hell; its art was buried in underground tombs to await latter-day grave robbers...
Today there is an increasing number of economists, notably Harvard's Sumner Slichter, who believe that inflation can be prudently kept in check by Government fiscal policy and a close watch on spending. But inflation should not be made into a hobgoblin that obscures the fact that the U.S. has already expanded enormously without serious inflation -and can do so again. Says a top congressional staff economist: "Inflation really represents one of the most inconsequential economic problems. It should be given the lowest priority, behind such important things as improving our industrial capacity and total production...
...Hobgoblin Mood. Burchfield's love for nature grew naturally out of his boyhood in Salem, Ohio. The woods, fields and swamps on Salem's outskirts were his favorite refuge, where he found a private world overlaid with hobgoblin moods, hints of dark, mysterious forces and occasional lyrical sunbursts of delight. But his first struggling attempts to set down this world of nature met with little popular success. Ever self-doubting, Burchfield decided to turn to realistic paintings of the world...
...named Doc in Walt Disney's Snow White. Like Doc, he is white-haired, baldpated, plump, restless and has a stammer. His sad brown eyes are partly hidden behind horn-rimmed spectacles. He laughs a lot. His art, of course, seems as out of this world as any hobgoblin...