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...Gompers used to sum up his ambitions for labor in one word: "More." Murray's goal-although he does not like to talk in terms of ultimate goals-is much wider and deeper...
...effort to bring him to a wider audience, three of Aleichem's books have been translated into English in recent years. The first two (TIME, June 24, 1946 and Jan. 31, 1949), collections of stories, revealed him as a tender satirist and a wild humorist who sometimes capered off into the topsy-turvy world of surrealism. The third book, Wandering Star, is a rambling, picaresque novel about the life of Yiddish actors in the Europe of 50 or 60 years ago. Aleichem wrote best in the story form, but Wandering Star, for all its meandering pace, is often...
...weekly observed : "Criticism of Mr. Churchill among his own supporters has grown, particularly during the past two months, to such proportions that it is no longer concealed. Some of the criticism is unimportant; it reflects the disappointment of partisan hopes that were never real. But much of it goes wider . . . Indecisiveness in government is the failing for which, above all others, a Prime Minister can never escape blame . . . There is every sign that Mr. Churchill's own interventions have sometimes been the direct reason why government policy has not been settled on early and clear lines...
...holding our own . . . but we cannot be satisfied with that. We cannot live from hand to mouth and from month to month in this world of change and turmoil. We must create by long and steady systems of trade and exchange throughout our Empire and Commonwealth, and throughout the wider world, reserves of strength and solvency which enable us to rise solid, steadfast and superior . . . Thus and thus alone can we stand firm and unbroken against all the winds that blow...
...Others grieved. "They wouldn't talk to us," cried Giovanni Ovino. "I said to myself: 'Maybe they don't like my black hair.' In a funny way, I felt ashamed of my hair. But how could I change it?" Domenico Loi saw it in a wider context. "They weren't Communists . . . But if they had been Communists, they couldn't willfully have damaged their nation more." As if in agreement, the unseen foghorn moaned...