Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says Robertson, add a dimension. Take a deep breath and consider spheres instead of circles. In freshman solid geometry (which deals with ordinary "flat" space), a two-inch sphere has eight times the volume of a one-inch sphere. But if space is curved (a la Einstein), the two-inch sphere (curling in upon itself in space) will have less than eight times the volume of the one-inch sphere...
...Comrade Lombardo," yelled another delegate, "figures have killed your common sense. . . . Open your mind to the vivifying breath from the proletariat...
Proletarian Breath. At the Congress' opening session, Guest Speaker Palmiro Togliatti, dapper Communist boss, suavely declared: "Comrades, we feel profoundly united to you." Silver-haired Sicilian Giuseppe Casadei chimed in: "When peasants go to occupy feudal lands, should they go in separate groups, one Communist, one Socialist? When we face Fascist rifle fire, shall the Communists be in one square and the Socialists in another?" Sweepingly he pointed to a placard: "We want the powerful Socialist Party to be the vanguard of the united Popular Democratic Front." Cried he: "There, comrades, is the way to end proletarian enslavement...
...Communists in the National Assembly faced a dangerous situation last week and handled it admirably. The proceedings, however, were not dignified. The "Cocos" have had a lot of breath knocked out of them lately, but they always have enough left to scream insults...
Last week a picture suspiciously like their faked shot turned up in a full-page layout that replaced the editorial page in most of the Hearst papers. Cried its caption, in a single horrified breath: "Throughout the nation, this scene is being reenacted on a scale increasing at a rate that has brought a rising tide of demand for a law to end promiscuous drinking by women." Brayed a banner headline: AMERICA'S TRAGEDY-THE FEMALE BARFLY. As if to show the world-and his editors-that there was life in the old boy yet, aged (84), ailing William...