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...years after World War I, when a generation was assaulted by the century's most vicious fallacy, i.e., that Communism was kin to progress. All were affected by the fallacy in varying ways, and all, being gifted with brilliant intellects, did a great deal to spread its paralyzing poison through the West's thinking...
Many recent writers have described and documented the technically perfected destruction that must come with a future war--the fast destruction from a flaring rocket or a low-slung tank, the lingering poison of a radioactive cloud. Professor Albert J. Guerard has undercut these catalogues of killing in "Night Journey," '5 future war by writing about the men who must fight it. He has written a frighteningly plausible story of those men and their...
...money. Dr. George L.. Clark, head of the division of analytical chemistry at the University of Illinois, reported that the Magic Spikes he had tested contained no vrilium-whatever it might be-but merely ½,000th of a cent's worth of barium chloride, a cheap rat poison. Dr. Bernard Waldman, head of the nuclear physics laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, aimed a Geiger counter at six "radioactive" Magic Spikes in the courtroom. The judge and jurors heard no telltale...
Last week, after a successful trip to the West Coast, Shearing was at Manhattan's Strand Theatre for his first big-theater appearance. What jazz fans heard was a far cry from the feverishly disorganized, shrilly dissonant music that had made bop box-office poison in a lot of places. Shearing's music was sherbet-cold. Backed by a vibraphone, electric guitar, bass and drums, he played his piano as though he were tapping on tuned icicles...
...small boy about to be spanked stuffs napkins in the seat of his pants. "Or, to change the comparison, we may seek to be inoculated against Christianity with a churchly solution of one part Christianity to 99 parts respectability and good-fellowship. Good-fellowship and respectability are not poison; but they can, and frequently do, so dilute the grace of God as to render it almost powerless...