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...pause to distinguish between creativeness and photography. But the author has taken a cause, has attempted to find the Universal in a mining town. It may be there, but his efforts to prove "the torrent and ecstasy of life" are hopelessly inadequate. The love of John Donnelly, a raw Irish miner, for Zola, an alluring if somewhat incongruous prostitute, forms what plot and motivation there is. With a painstaking that is almost embarrassing. Mr. Brinig devotes himself to an exhaustive analysis of his characters, and finally they, under this pressure, disappear into a rarified atmosphere, incompatible with the gusto...
...than a member of the Federal family. His relief program consists largely of trying to put the jibraros back on the land, to make them selfsupporting. Likewise he would increase the island's industrialization with the aid of ample waterpower. Porto Rico, for instance, produces 600,000 tons of raw sugar per year but lacks a big refinery. Politically Porto Rico wants full statehood (minor voices call for independence) or at least a civil territorial status like Hawaii and Alaska. Porto Ricans were outraged when the U. S. Congress at the last session classified it as a colony by appropriating...
...first time the Soviet Union offered razor blades. In the Soviet pavilion nonchalant Reds said: "We will meet any price cut, any cut whatsoever in raw products and canned goods...
...morning that the Herald Tribune's editorial appeared, as if in reply the Daily News's editorial writer appraised the Gordon murder and Bischoff suicide as "not so raw material for a tremendous play or novel."* And the News said...
...Passed a bill to broaden the Treasury's tariff embargo power against goods or raw materials produced by convict, forced or indentured labor; sent it to the Senate...