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...Luftwaffe, weather-bound through most of last week, got over England's east coast long enough one night to drop paper weapons. The Germans thought that the downcurve in British morale (TIME, June 16) was steep enough so that some Britons could be persuaded into a mood of utter defeat. So the Luftwaffe scattered leaflets of pessimism...
Though issued to take effect immediately, the regulations provided 90 days of grace for sale or disposal of properties. Not all radiomen were in utter despair. There was President Roosevelt who has always patted radio's head; and the listeners were get ting a better break than any others in the world. Maybe, with the war and everything, it would all blow over...
Those Argentines who would go the London-Washington way see Argentina's future in gradual industrialization that would free her from utter dependence on exports. But Argentina's old-guard Conservatives, of whom Castillo is the archetype, represent landowners and not the masses. Above all they are for Argentina and her still-unrealized destiny...
Flotsam has brief incidents, descriptions, and mere casual statements that have the impact and brightness of poems: Kern's exquisite pleasure, under shelter of a fortnight's residential permit, in asking a policeman for the time; Steiners utter lack of interest in the world's news ("For someone swimming under water . . . the color of the fishes isn't important"); the man who stands at a Paris police window seemingly in perfect nonchalance, streaming with the sweat of terror; a magnificent passage in which Steiner watches Germany swing past his train window in the dark; Steiner...
Whereas people with other types of mental disorder try to sink to an infantile level, or to an animal or vegetative level, the semantic dementia cases try to find utter disintegration, nonlife. But, not recognizing their deep urge to self-destruction, they practically never commit forthright suicide...