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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honking motorcades, truckloads of young street sheiks making faces and tooting horns, brought to a close last week the last of the Purge primaries, in New York's 16th or "Gashouse" Congressional district, Manhattan. It had been the perfect picture of a Tammany fight, with plenty of mud-slinging at the finish, between two Irishmen alike as two of Paddy's pigs in outlook except that one of them had been cursed by Franklin Roosevelt for breaking out of the New Deal pen and the other had promised to be good...
Published in the U. S. last week was an other book by Professor Hogben, titled Science for the Citizen* subtitled "The Second of the Primers for the Age of Plenty.'' Started long before Mathematics for the Million, this hulking tome runs to 1,076 close-packed pages. It surveys almost the whole field of science, from its origins onward, is built on five main pillars: Astronomy, Chemistry, Power, Biology, Behavior...
...Matthews' description of the mating habits of the albatross, reads like something by James Thurber. Albatross mating, it appears, is "no rough-and-tumble affair as with the house spar-row"; the males "gather around one female and bow to her, bringing the head down close to the ground. As they do this they utter a harsh groaning sound, and the female bows and groans back at them." The mysteries and wonders which Naturalist Beebe unearths-his realization that his world of human beings is "only one among a host of many sizes and dimensions of other worlds...
...moments one of ominous fatalism, is set by Charles Boyer with his gloomy portrayal of Pepe le Moko, the underworld ruler. Hedy Lamarr, whose haunting mystery is the answer to an unexpressed desire in every man's subconscious, also stands with Mr. Boyer the test of the long, electric close-ups. The picture is notable for its attention to those details which aid in heightening the effect:--the irony of the blaring player-piano as the informer is murdered, the omnipresence of the boy-killer with the idiotic smile, various other tricks in lights and settings...
...number of times he used the word "moral", at a rough guess forty times, it is clear that morals are being safeguarded by Mr. Hoover and the Republican party while the Democrats are allowing them to rust. But paragraphs such as the following tend to make one doubt his close application to the study of morals as a science and suspect that there may be willy-nilly a touch of politics in his utterance: "The progress of mankind is in proportion to the advancement of truth and justice. These standards are fundamentally what we call morals. It is moral standards...