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...Carper's Progress. Ekaterina Furtseva is the kind of woman functionary that Communist Stalin set out to create when he refashioned the party after the purges. A minor party worker in Kursk and the Crimea, she was called to Moscow and sent to the Institute of Chemical Technology. She graduated in 1941 as a chemical engineer. But instead of practicing her profession, she and her technical knowledge were used to prompt and police other workers. As she came up through the Moscow party secretariat, her speeches rang with carping phrases: "The Kirov dynamo factory is seriously lagging behind...
...serious-to-potboiling books), University of London professor; of cancer; in London. Puffin-shaped, goat-bearded and brilliantly voluble ("I can explain anything to anybody"), C. E. M. Joad was variously a socialist, pacifist, patriot, agnostic, advocate of free love, polygamy, euthanasia, suicide and easy divorce, and a professional carper. On scientific progress: "The superman made the plane, but the ape has got hold of it." On religion: "Why, if God so loves us, does He give us such a hell of a time?" For the America he visited only once, Philosopher Joad reserved special acid: "What a genius Americans...
...applause at the end was not just for a brave try. Lenora had stage presence, and her voice reached to the farthest tiers of the opera house. Since it was not a first-night performance, few critics were on hand. But the Daily Express' Cecil Smith, often a carper, came and was conquered. Wrote Smith: a voice of "exceptional beauty and vitality...
Communications Commission request for public reactions to color TV. Some 5,000 questionnaires filled out by the viewers have been mostly critical raves, e.g., "This is it!", "I'm willing to write off my black & white set. . ." But one carper pleaded: "Please God, give us programs worth looking at, in color or black & white...
...since Michelangelo took revenge on a Vatican critic of his Last Judgment by limning the carper in the front row of the damned have prominent Roman Catholics so openly condemned an artistic project conducted under impeccable Catholic auspices...