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...Baser Appetites...
...first 14 months in office have not been easy on either man. Yet each in his own fashion mounted bold attacks on the enormous problems in his city. In the process, they have worked no miracles of unity. But they have succeeded in allaying the baser suspicions that clouded their campaigns. If blue-collar workers and diverse ethnic groups remain vaguely hostile to both mayors, Stokes and Hatcher have won impressive financial and moral support from the business community...
...something. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then-to learn." -The Sword in the Stone...
View is clogged to the tear ducts with loyal lifelong employees waiting for the last Trumpet to sound. On Author White s showing, it is hard to see why they were ever hired. The managing editor is a choleric refugee from The Front Page, whose English is baser than basic ("Crapola! Crapola! Crapola!"). As a roman a clef, or key-to-reality-novel, the book unlocks some fairly intriguing trade gossip. But as literature. View from the Fortieth Floor lacks a consistent viewpoint, simply upends a wastebasket of facts and scans the litter like tea leaves of doom...
...faddists of modern art and by implication to the empty messengers of any artistic age: "If the language of art gave voice to false, empty and confused spirits not in harmony with the Creator's design, if instead of lifting the mind and heart it stirred the baser passions ... it would degrade itself by denying its own essential aspect. It would be neither universal nor perennial as is the spirit...