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Skatinq in the Stacks. For specialized libraries in particular, the only answer to suffocation by paper is automation, which runs from the crudest idea to the most dazzling concept of the sophisticated mind. In the Detroit Public Library, book procurement is speeded up by sending boys whizzing down the 250-ft.-long stacks on roller skates. On the other hand, scientists dream that one day a scholar will be able to quiz a regional computer by telephone from his office; whereupon the answer, perhaps from a paper by a foreign colleague, will bounce off an orbiting communications satellite first into...
April is indeed the crudest month, especially in Britain. Wind-driven gusts of rain, sleet and snow last week caused a stirring of the earth's dull roots from John o' Groats in the North Sea to Lizard Point on the English Channel. Memory and desire were mixed with the drifting London fog, the wet pavements iridescent with lights, the factory smoke shrouding the Midlands, and files of miners with blackened faces trudging home from the pits...
Also the Edges. Only the crudest turn of fate gave Lyndon Johnson his chance, and so far he has made the most...
...American oilmen, the crudest cut of all has just been announced: a $9,300,000 deal with Moscow for 1,500,000 barrels of diesel fuel and 2,500,000 barrels of crude...
...murmuring "Not thus, not thus, neither is this Thou," the abstraction is fatal. It will make the life of lives inanimate and the love of loves impersonal. The naif image is mischievous chiefly in so far as it holds unbelievers back from conversions. It does believers, even at its crudest, no harm. What soul ever perished for believing that God the Father really has a beard...