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...often dream-like. There are no expanations for remarkable conincidences. Useless characters and irrelevant scenes are introduced, languish, and are forgotten. Time sequence and geography and character all blur into a fantastic, exciting, but extremely confusing montage. The Soviet literary critics rightly complained that there was a failure to distinguish between the March and October revolutions. No matter what the1
...Normal" Inflation. In arguments, most speechmakers fail to distinguish between runaway inflation of the sort that swept Germany after World War II, and that now has Chile and Bolivia in its grip, and the so-called "normal" inflation of 1% or 2% a year that has usually accompanied times of prosperity. Nobody wants runaway inflation. But many economists believe that the U.S. economy cannot grow and prosper without some measure of "normal" inflation...
...imagine Walter Lippmann was not left undismayed by your statement, "He is undismayed by the fact that many of his readers might find it hard to distinguish between his solutions and those preferred by the Kremlin [Dec. 22]." Are all solutions for resolving the cold war tension destined to automatic rejection if they bear a similarity to Soviet proposals...
TIME'S review of The Inn of the Sixth Happiness [Dec. 22] was more jejune than usual. The sophomore-with-typewriter who pecked out this tirade quite evidently cannot distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality. The movie has more "treacle [than] the Great Boston Molasses Flood." Why not park your lad next to his cliché factory and pray for a small explosion...
...Communists in Iraq. Nasser's regime signed a contract with a Soviet delegation in Cairo for the building of Nasser's Aswan high dam, and Nasser's propagandists, covering the boss's anxious retreat, put out the naive-sounding line that Arabs must distinguish sharply between bad local Communists and good Russians. Nothing in the Syrian unpleasantness, wrote Nasser's trained seal. Editor Mohammed Heikal of Al Ahram, must be allowed to affect "in any way the great victory we achieved in earning the friendship of the Soviet Union...