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...with the same diligence, M. Romains makes every character comic, with nary a serious foil--which is something like painting a picture without an inch of void...
...this industrial flower was cut down; the Russian workers who had manned the barricades "physically and politically faded out." On the other hand, despite famine and purges, the bourgeois peasantry "survived in the tangible realities of rural life [and] the socialist revolution was like a phantom suspended in a void...
...many French intellectuals, this scientific determinism seems to fill the void left by the failure of humanism. The world Communist revolution failed: the proletariat did not dispossess the capitalists or God. Existentialism failed: numerous reversals in the political causes it supported have exposed the fragility of the notion that human will can dictate history...
...have done away with chaperons, supervision, rules, close family relations, and privacy from the intrusion of the communications media. We have left our children totally vulnerable to the onslaughts of the commercial exploitation of sex, tabloid reporting of sordid sexual occurrences, wholly unsupervised after-school occupations. To fill the void left by the old safeguards, youngsters must be given a bulwark of factual knowledge and orientation...
...acid fun at Kaiser Wilhelm II, and for its lese majesty was frequently banned. It took on new teeth in the 1920s just in time to start potshotting at the rise of Nazism. One Simpl view of Hitler showed the top of his head lifted up to reveal a void within. "Isn't it strange," remarked the magazine, "that you can make such a lot of trouble with so little stuff?" It was not strange, of course, that such temerity resulted in another banning...