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...reading of your article . . . brought with it the stark realization that there exist within our society the same sadistic elements which prompted the brutality of Nazi concentration camps and Japanese prisons...
...side of Havana's crowded harbor, the, massive crane that unloads the Seatrain stood stark and still. The Seatrain itself, a seagoing ferry that brings 105 loaded U.S. freight cars to Cuba weekly and returns them packed with Cuban freight, languished at its home berth in New Orleans. Cuba's belligerent dock workers, backed by the compliant Grau San Martin Government, had decided that the Seatrain was cutting them out of jobs...
Winter's first major assault, a vast cold air mass from the Arctic, swept across the nation this week. Florida felt the chill fringes of it. In Grand Forks, N. Dak., the temperature dropped to 17° below zero. Around the stark deserted tipples of the coal mines from West Virginia to southern Illinois, a northwest wind whooped. John L. Lewis had a new ally...
...spirit of American nationalism grew, they abandoned their exclusive commercial attachment with the Old Country, and moved into Cambridge, opening up for business on Oxford Street. In 1932 they folded their tents again, and moved over to Boylston Street, transforming a part of Ofgant's stark, cement Chevrolet showroom into a homely little market of a million items...
...thought across the past few years. All of Warren's work has been informed with an acute and very private sense of Doom. But in his maturer poems, and now in "All The King's Men," Warren has translated this vision of Evil into one of religious affirmation. Willie Stark is corrupted and dies, but through his death Jack Burden finds a love and happiness he had never known. In this does Willie Stark fulfill his own transposition of the Biblical story of the grain of wheat: "good must come out of bad." Surely a knowledge of Evil...