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Estimates were driven upward over the weekend as Kamin's lawyers procured expensive transcripts of last week's trial of author Harvey O'Connor, also under indictment for refusing to answer questions before a subcommittee headed by Senator McCarthy...
...universe, and science so far has not explained it. "Attention has often been called to the curious contrast between organic evolution and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.* Through evolution has come a succession of living things that shows progressively higher levels of organization. The organic world has constantly moved upward. The Second Law, on the other hand, expresses the undoubted fact that lifeless matter tends to decrease in the degree of its organization, to grow more and more random in character that the universe tends to 'run down...
...There seem to be in nature two opposing streams-the tendency toward organization and goal-seeking, and the tendency toward chance and randomness. The upward purposeful thrust of life, which continually opposes the downward drag of matter, is evidence, I think, that in nature there is something that we may call-to name what can never be put into words-a Principle of Organization. Not only does lift man ever higher but it provides three great essentials for his religion-: brings order out of randomness, spirit out of matter, and personality out of neutral and impersonal stuff. This Principle...
...over the U.S., the economy pushed ahead. For the first time in four months, reported the Agriculture Department, farm prices ended a decline and edged upward, about 1% between mid-August and mid-September. Machine-tool makers boosted their estimate of orders to $800 million for this year, a full $100 million above earlier predictions and a whopping $240 million above orders for last year. With the auto industry beginning to hit a good production stride, the nation's steel production climbed to 96% of capacity, almost 26% over the same week in 1954. Sales of new cars were...
...other Mannerist extreme stood El Greco, who in his Toledo paintings finally dissolved the too, too solid flesh from his saints, painted them with bodies soaring upward, elongated and weightless, with fingers no more than mere ribbons of flesh. When El Greco died in 1614, the Age of Mannerism was already drawing to a close. But before El Greco died, he had validated the Mannerists' extreme contention, that the laws of perspective and proportion must give way before man's inner vision, which not so much mocks nature as triumphs over...