Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although an occasional pat on the back is a good thing for those of our representatives who are trying to do the right thing, yet there is nothing like a little incisive satire (of which Capp is an accomplished master) for keeping the blatant demagogues under control. Senator Jack S. Phogbound is a type not peculiar to the U.S.A. We are all acquainted with a few Jack S.s, and in some cases a glance in the mirror may reveal the existence of a wholly unsuspected addition to the number...
...Culprit. It was "monopoly capitalism," explained Defense Attorney Kasnatschejev, that was the real culprit. The prisoners were instruments of forces beyond their control...
...last week's show were abstractions which reflected his growing interest in geometry (he used a ruler and divider in planning them). "Abstractions for abstraction's sake," he still insisted, "are a sterile business. When the artist permits the mood of the spectator to take full control he abdicates his function. But my abstractions are projections of reality." Among the more obvious "projections": a Mutilated House which looked like a cement block oozing blood, and The Face of Treason, a successfully nauseating tapioca of eyes in space...
Liebling views with alarm the trend toward fewer newspapers and their control by "a group of wealthy individuals who share the same point of view." He thinks publishers have no right to be publishers simply because they inherited papers. Writes Liebling: "Try to imagine the future of medicine, law or pedagogy if their absolute control were vested in the legal heirs of men who had bought practices in 1890-even when the heirs lacked any special training...
Recent advances in research control of cancer and the progress of the nationwide campaign against it will be the topic for a meeting at the medical School on November 16. The School of Public Health is sponsoring the program, which is open to the general public...