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Ever since the Republicans gained a majority on the National Labor Relations Board, they have taken small steps to limit their jurisdictional boundaries. The board, said Commissioner Philip Ray Rogers, should not poke into labor squabbles involving hot-dog stands, service stations, apartment houses. Last week the board took another big step to cut down the number of cases it handles. It waived its jurisdiction over small retail stores, utility companies, transit systems, radio and TV stations and five other types of businesses...
PHILOSOPHER OR DOG? (271 pp.)-Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Clotilde Wilson-Noonday Press...
...brows from Sophocles and Heraclitus to Pirandello and John Dewey. To Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, who produced the best in 19th century Brazilian literature, the "problem of reality" was not just a metaphysical "What is it?" The problem was a practical "Can you take it?" In Philosopher or Dog?, the third of his novels to be published in English, Author Machado tells what happens to a man who can't take...
...average young fellow minding his own business in a little up-country town in Brazil, when all at once a silly old noodle of his acquaintance, a pseudo-philosopher named Quincas Borba, dies and leaves him an immense fortune on the sole condition that he look after a dog, also named Quincas Borba. Rubião exuberantly grabs the money and the dog, goes flying down...
...irony goes deep-deeper sometimes than the author can smelt it. Machado was occasionally a careless workman: his characters often come tumbling into view piecemeal-so many arms, fears, eyes, legs, longings, that the reader must assemble them as he can. The symbolism of the dog with the same name as his late master is soggy, and gets worked for more than it is worth-Machado seems to be saying that along with the old man's money and dog, Rubião inherited his fatuity. Still, as the author says at one point in the book...