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Another regional newspaper, the Santa Fe New Mexican, published a series of articles last year that gave TIME'S Denver correspondent, Barren Beshoar, his first indication that things were going badly with the Navajos. He made a trip to the reservation to see for himself and TIME ran the story in its August 12, 1946 issue...
When the House convened next day, the wrangling began all over again. For six hours that afternoon and six the next, the debate ranged over familiar, barren ground. Michigan's Clare Hoffman, who is bitterly isolationist and antiCommunist, rose up to quote from Washington's Farewell Address: "Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?" Then, quite unpredictably, he branded the danger of world Communism "a false doctrine...
...bore the air along their accustomed lines-and with unhappy results. Two pages of Henry Miller's exhibitionist prose, a dozen lines of Kenneth Patchen's apocalyptic "self-expression" verse are all a reader needs to know forever the school of professional literary bohemianism. The shrill, barren exercises in surrealist freewheeling, the turgid moralizing of those poets who have retired to philosophical hermitages, and the vulgarity of the psychoanarchists-all these are dead letters...
...first nine months in office, President Miguel Aleman has been visited by a Job-like succession of "acts of God." Foot-&-mouth disease wrecked the cattle industry, grasshoppers stripped the fields of southern Mexico, storms blocked main highways, drought left fields barren and brown. Last week he said: "One of my Cabinet ministers told me that all we needed to make the story of disaster complete was a fire in the Poza Rica oilfields. Pronto a phone rang. I picked it up. It was a man saying Well No. 6 at Poza Rica was afire." Last week, 13 days after...
...generation which had started to think after the flood. It had no traditions, and no memories to bind it to the old. vanished world. It was a generation born without an umbilical cord . . . colorless, barren voice . . . never smiled . . . absolute humorlessness . . . without frivolity, without melancholy . . . generation of modern Neanderthalers...