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Next But One. He had become a bogeyman to everyone-the Tories, whom he called "lower than vermin." the academic Socialists, Hugh Gaitskell ("that desiccated calculating machine") and the U.S., which he regarded as the exponent of greedy capitalism and diplomatic ineptitude. Though he had thought well enough of Communism in theory in the 1930s to urge a popular front (a notion that got him briefly expelled from the Labor Party), he ultimately came to regard the Kremlin-directed Communist movement as deeply malevolent. When Moscow ordered the Berlin blockade, he was almost alone in Britain in demanding that...
...sunlight. All the ingredients essential to a highly industrialized society are present in the combination of those substances." The dwindling of usable supplies of fresh water is being matched by steady progress toward a cheap method of desalinizing sea water; nuclear energy has dispelled the neo-Malthusians' favorite bogeyman of exhausted coal and oil deposits; and should the earth's supply of uranium ever be used up, men could turn to solar energy-which is already used in Japan to operate 200,000 water heaters...
Readers who know Henry Miller only by his reputation as the bogeyman of the U.S. Bureau of Customs generally are surprised to discover that in many ways the man is as moralistic as Cotton Mather, and not much more interested in writing fiction. He seems incapable of composing more than half a dozen pages of narrative without dribbling off into the cosmic. In the present collection-largely a sampling of the literary glue that holds together the naughty passages of such works as Tropic of Cancer, Sexus, and Plexus-he interrupts a reasonably interesting travel piece to proclaim that...
What the 18th century U.S. schoolboy beheld was a tiaraed bogeyman, whose heart appeared to mask Malice, Murder and Treachery. The caricature went undisputed. In the Protestant schools of the time, Roman Catholics were barred from teaching jobs. As Irish and German immigrants swelled the U.S. Catholic population, their bishops (in 1884) announced an urgent edict. Every parish priest must organize a parochial school; Catholic parents must send their children to such schools whenever possible...
...Marx, Author Russell demolishes the Red bogeyman not only for sociological or economic errors but for his faults in epistemology (theory of knowledge). Unfortunately, the power of logic stands somewhat diminished when Russell is bound to mention, almost as an afterthought, that "nearly half the world today is governed by states that put implicit trust in Marx's theories...