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...public mind with the awesome shades of colossally Big Business. But he did not sound like a very confirmed capitalist last week when he said: "We can retain in this country unorganized, individual planning and operation, but, if we do, its action will be at times necessarily chaotic, and we shall, as a result, pay the economic penalty of that disorder, such as we are paying...
...Melody of Chaos" is a very apt title for this attempt to interpret the works of Conrad Aiken and certain of his associates in the psychoanalytical schools of writing. A good portion of the book is concerned with exposing the essential chaotic nature of the material with which these writers are working, and most of the rest is given over to an evaluation of Aiken's poetry in terms of this burrowing about at the hidden roots of action...
...others are analyzed or even psychoanalyzed and the purpose and method in their apparent madness are clearly and succinctly examined. The frequent discontinuities of action and the indefinite blurring and even incoherent quality of these authors are attributed to the multiplicity of selves within the individual and the generally chaotic and tangled mass of impulses which govern conscious action. This attempt to delineate incipient thought and the very springs of consciousness have necessitated a new technique especially in those writers like Joyce who are tending toward what might be called the steam of subconsciousness in which even the words...
...power and plans only one degree smaller. A potent public utilitarian, he had just begun to fashion the Second Greatest Steel Company. He had also turned to the rubber-tire business and, as greatest stockholder in the greatest rubber companies, he was about to bring order into an often chaotic industry. Furthermore, his financial plans were given a heroic cast because, through them, he felt he was bringing to the Middle West its just share of the control of American Industry...
Strictures. With much of Thomas' general criticism of the U. S. scene even tycoons may agree. Says Thomas: "The whole [economic] system is planless and extremely chaotic. . . . Employers have not even been able to forecast the market for their own products or prevent recurring depression. ... In sum total this planless, wasteful profit system gives us a new type of misery: poverty and unemployment in the midst of potential plenty...