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This shifting political footwork makes him just as unpredictable in his view of the Republican Administration. Lawrence alternates between referring to President Eisenhower's "tragic plight" and hailing his economic proposals as the most "dynamic from an economic viewpoint [that have] ever been brought forth." His harshest words are for the "socalled liberals, New Deal writers, left-wingers" and Democrats who were "blind to the Communist menace...
When Rogers and Pottinger were de signing books that became valued for their workmanship almost more than for content, the Press was barely surviving from a financial viewpoint. The selection of books lay heavily with the arts and letters, and many of the texis were overly pedantic for even a comparatively wide readership, Many a time the Press would put out a book that was certain to be a commercial failure just because it was so beautiful, crudite and lack-insert...
...cited [TIME, Jan. 11] as making a statement not in fact made and, by implication, as supporting a viewpoint not in fact supported. Nothing that I said while at the meetings of economists in Washington came close in sound or meaning to the statement attributed to me: "The bigness bugaboo took a licking here." I did remark, in an off-the-cuff discussion with one of your reporters, that many economists have apparently come to consider monopolistic business as much less widespread and important in the American economy than they had formerly believed. I suggested that this change of attitude...
...boys have a challenging curiosity" said Ulen, "for instance the average freshman is very much a liberal, even a trifle to the Left. This viewpoint broadens out so that when he is a senior he has a much more conservative idea of life...
...such a situation, partisanship colors one's viewpoint, but it's outrageously impudent for any attack to be made on a university without giving the whole story. We'll take our revenge by defeating Harvard in football next year, not by trying to smear her name...