Word: cornelis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived by Joycean "silence, exile and cunning" without quitting U.S. shores. But since a writer's secrets cannot be kept from his books and hence his readers, the popular mind has perhaps intuitively felt the "outsider" in its midst. For Cozzens is really alien grain in the American corn. Americans (particularly American writers) are apt to be romantics to the point of being moistly sentimental; Cozzens is classical, dry, cerebral. Americans have a youth complex; Cozzens has an age complex. Americans are optimistic; Cozzens is pessimistic (he would say realistic). Americans like change; Cozzens accepts but deplores it. Americans...
Food Faddists. In women's magazines appeared ads from Corn Products Refining Co. praising "golden-light" Mazola salad-and-cooking oil as "pure corn oil . . . not hydrogenated, unsaturated, nutritionally unexcelled." In medical journals, Corn Products sharpened its attack, invited doctors to write in for a free booklet, "Vegetable Oils in Nutrition." stressing reports on the connection of undesirable fats and heart disease. "Evidence is accumulating," said the ad, "that quality of the dietary fat may be more important than quantity...
...technological explosion makes such curbs futile. Last year, with strict acreage and marketing controls in effect, millions of acres in the soil bank and a severe drought pinching the Southwest, technology-armed U.S. farmers matched the biggest total harvest they had ever known. On land diverted from corn and wheat under acreage allotments, farmers bring in crops - barley, soybeans, sorghums - that compete with corn and wheat as livestock feeds. Result: bigger corn and wheat surpluses. "As soon as they plaster a patch on one place," says an Illinois farm-organization official, "something squirts out in another...
...from Congress in 1954 a grudging bit of price-support flexibility, but last year it took an Eisenhower veto to keep Capitol Hill from restoring the old system of rigid, mandatory support, at 90% of parity, under six basic farm commodities, including wheat, cotton, corn. Benson himself has had to learn to bend with political winds, to compromise, zigzag and, as he puts it with a wan smile, "rise above principle...
...ultimate contradiction, the Administration put into effect a support price lor corn grown outside the acreage limitation program, i.e., a guaranteed market of $1.25 a bushel for those who thumbed their noses at crop-restriction programs...