Word: conning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This gruesome novel of human beastliness was one of the last (and most appropriate) to be published in Vienna before the Anschluss. Last year, it appeared in translation in England (where Bulgarian-born Author Canetti now lives) and set the critics ablaze pro & con. "Mere Central-European portentousness . . . at once heavy and trivial. . . . A terrific and inconsequent to-do about trifles,"harrumphed the dignified London Times Literary Supplement. "Appalling, magnificent," exclaimed the Spectator, "screams and bellows of evil out of which [a] supremely mad, unfaceable book is orchestrated . . . of which we dare not deny the genius...
World War II made most Americans conscious that the arsenal of democracy has a strategic roof (Canada) and ground floor (Latin America). Postwar developments have made them acutely conscious that the roof is a convenient avenue of entry for burglars and that ideological con men have already moved in among the respectable residents on the first floor...
...Control. What good was the discovery? The biological revolutionists were reluctant to say. But they admitted (with a gleam in their eyes) that it gave a new, promising method of controlling cell life and growth. They had already con trolled yeast cells by regulating competition among plasmagenes. Future biologists might do the same with bacteria cells or man cells...
...fair that the Russians should be with us in the Ruhr and on the Rhine, it is equally fair that we should be with them in Silesia and Saxony and on the Danube. I would even say that one of the essential merits of international con trol of the Ruhr is that it demands reciprocity...
...arguments pro and con have ranged far afield into discussions of budgetary balancing, fiscal policy, and inflationary effects, but none of the proponents of tax reform have examined HRI at its most vulnerable point. Despite the apparent justice of an equiproportional tax cut for everybody, the bill proves on closer examination to be a vicious example of regressive tax relief. In effect, the brainchild of Messrs. Knutson and Martin gives little aid to the lower income brackets and reserves the plums for the well...