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...traditional" art have both been championed for years in such inflated terms and with such agitated voodoo that intelligent men may well be bored with the whole controversy. Most artists are. Supercilious esthetes and professional scoffers being alike discredited, the most promising movement in art criticism is toward a simpler, less pretentious and closer examination of the facts of art. The past fortnight was notable for turning up two clear books of this sort...
...begin he points out what many economists have known for years, but in simpler language, that among the chief defects in our capitalist system which must be remedied if we are to escape abnormally long depression periods is the restriction of production to maintain price. It is of prime importance, he observes, that production be kept going in spite of decreasing returns. Otherwise the closing up of productive units is self-perpetuating, prolonging the depression period...
...oscillating motions. Ever since the 18th Century mathematicians have occupied themselves with the hypothetical case of an infinite piece of string. In how many ways could such a string vibrate? Today the problem has taken a more practical turn. Mathematicians want to separate complex waves and oscillations into simpler movements. Chief use for harmonic analysis is study of the problems presented by the whirls and eddies of air around airplane wings. For example, harmonic analysis makes it possible to measure the varying speed at different points in a wind tunnel, to plot these speeds on a graph and reduce complicated...
...main narrative is much simpler-the story of six seamen aboard a tramp schooner bound from Norway to Newfoundland, with a couple of months ashore in Iceland, where the captain is laid up with pneumonia...
...would be simpler to call him Mercury...