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...cold war is no longer good enough. The U.S. satellite test vehicle, reaching for the sky and falling flat on its pad, was a symbol of the old standards: a hurry-up effort to answer moons with a moon, klaxons of witless pressagentry and, after the flop, yelps of anguish (cried Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "How long, how long, O God, how long will it take us to catch up with Russia's two satellites?"). Yet even if Vanguard had been successful in its first try, even if the U.S. had put a dozen satellites into outer space...
Cries of dismay and anguish from businessmen last week forced the Government to back down on its requirement that taxpayers list all expense-account payments on 1957 tax returns (TIME, Nov. 18). The new line on 1957 tax form 1040 can be ignored, said Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Russell Harrington, "because the decision to include [it] was not made public until ten months of the tax year had passed, and thus had a retroactive effect." But Internal Revenue warned that the new requirement will definitely go into effect next year...
...wringer method. But the savings of the kind we need can come about only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activities. This will be one of the hardest and most distasteful tasks that the coming session of Congress must face, and pressure groups will wail in anguish...
Pretensions & Spitballs. Author Wilson's view of life may sometimes seem like that of an undertaker assessing the most likely customer, but there is no denying the sneering precision of his observations. U.S. readers, without suffering the Englishman's special anguish which comes from a feeling that he is improperly dressed, may acknowledge the deadly accuracy of some of Wilson's catarrhy spitballs. One character sneers at his pretentious brother: "Ah, I see we have a new class now. There used to be those who had the tele [TV] and those who were above...
...point continually arises that Kollwitz is, after all, an "Expressionist," a wielder of emotions who prefers impulsive, intuitive reactions to intellectualized or classic ones. No answer speaks more eloquently than the suffering "expressionist" figures of Rouault, whose silent anguish mirrors not only torment and martyrdom but that essential dignity of art defined by Malraux as "the voice of silence." The difference, again, is aesthetic, not literary. Kollwitz cries out against war; Rouault affirms the artistry war destroys. One is advocacy and the other...