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...supply was chaotic, soldiers were exhausted from long marches, liaison was fantastically bad, command corrupt and inept. At the Masurian Lakes one Russian commander deployed his corps by plain-language radio orders, stupidly tipped off the Germans...
...will let corporations get away with murder at the people's expense. Some politicians who do know better will fear that people are too ignorant and prejudiced to understand that this is not true. And Treasury experts seem generally blind to the economic consequences of the present chaotic tax system...
...ladder and is thought to be dead until a friend splashes whiskey over him at the funeral wake.) The four parts of Joyce's novel reflect Italian Philosopher Giovanni Battista Vice's theory that history eternally passes and repasses through four phases: theocratic, aristocratic, democratic, chaotic. Finnegans Wake suggests that life has again reached the stage of chaos and is awaiting a divine thunderclap that will bring the world to its senses and start the four-part cycle anew...
...chaotic world is shown by Joyce in the dreaming mind of Finnegans' principal character, H. C. Earwicker, an Irishman of Germanic stock haunted by his own fall from grace. Earwicker's dream, Campbell and Robinson believe, is of the kind described by Philosopher Schopenhauer when he summed up the modern world as "a vast dream, dreamed by a single being; but in such a way that all the dream characters dream too. Thus everything interlocks and harmonizes with everything else...
...Stupid Philistines." The city planners' replies were less pungent, but almost as rude. Wrote Manhattan's Carol Aronovici, author of Housing the Masses, and a professional city planner: "Does the Commissioner not recognize the existence of chaotic disorganization in our cities or is it merely that he objects to intelligent, experienced students of cities expressing an opinion in a field in which he is trying to secure full control?" Barbara Lewis of Trenton, N.J. compared Moses to a pulp magazine reader who presumes to attack Shakespeare and Tolstoy. "The genius of Saarinen and Gropius will fortunately long survive...