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Good Sense. Belgium's achievement is enough to make a lot of economists throw in the slide rule in disgust. To the austeritarian school (prevalent in Europe and some U.S. quarters), prosperity, like chivalry, is an archaic notion, something that apple sellers in the '30s expected just around the corner. And even a good many plain Americans have agreed that free enterprise, if not downright immoral, is at least impractical in Europe today. Yet Belgium, like a healthy old chain-smoker defying the anti-nicotine prophets, is both prosperous and free...
...full justice. . . ." But it apparently took the word of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that it would be "impossible" to win the case "since [the Klan] would be able to furnish approximately 175 witnesses against the newspaper reporters." At week's end, City Editor Joe Hall quit in disgust...
...sort of way, it is fun. Much of the laborious cuteness, questionable bit by bit, is so wildly preposterous that the total effect is cheerfully insane-a little as if it were possible to have a happy, harmless case of the d.t.s. The movie will undoubtedly bore some people, disgust some and delight others; but on its novelty value alone, it may make a lot of money. The mere thought of the human and subhuman labor and patience behind the entire effort appalls the imagination, let alone the intelligence...
...Sudden Death. In his diary and letters Stilwell usually refers to Chiang Kai-shek as "Peanut" and Roosevelt as "Old Softie." The crisis in Stilwell's struggles with "Peanut" and "Old Softie" came in September 1944. In nis disgust with Chiang, he wrote to Mrs. Stilwell, "Why can't sudden death for once strike in the proper place?" Two days later he was jubilant. He finally got from Roosevelt what Editor White describes as "the sharpest-worded American demand for reform and action on the part of the Chinese government that the war had evoked...
Such shenanigans dramatize Graves's disgust with civilization as he finds ' it. That disgust kept him in high school until he was 21 because "except for drawing, the subjects were a nuisance," and since then he has almost always managed to avoid steady work. His new temperas, on show in a Manhattan gallery last week, featured birdlike forms haloed with skeins of light, and minnows flashing in dark swirls of color. A devotee of oriental philosophy, Graves has recently begun mingling his subjective symbols with decayed-looking versions of the ancient Chinese bronze ritual vessels in the Seattle...