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Since the nation was not doomed to economic collapse last week, Republicans decided that it was time to challenge Democrats who cried that it was. The voices of the doom criers heard in the land warned that 1) the Republicans were courting a depression, and 2) if it came, they wouldn't know how to cope with...
Eternally Quiet. At Columbia, Burns and Columbia's President Dwight Eisenhower met only casually. But when Ike went to the White House, the doom criers already were predicting a new era of bread lines and Apple Marys. The three-member Council of Economic Advisers had lost professional standing under President Truman; Leon Keyserling, his chief economic adviser, was a lawyer who skillfully tailored economic conclusions to fit political ends. Ike ordered a search for the man who knew most about depressions and what causes them. Arthur Burns was chosen...
...century ago, when the historical optimists still believed in eternal progress, the earthly future looked like bright heaven. Today, for a whole school of literary pessimists, it looks like unshaded hell. The harbingers of doom, headed by Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four), have now been joined by Frenchman Jean Malaquais. His world of the future is as grim a nightmare as theirs. But the hero of Malaquais' The Joker is not one to surrender to a nightmare. What makes him different from most of his fictional counterparts is his unbreakable will to live...
...victim of inhuman pride. Unlike the willful Lear, the willful Coriolanus cannot term himself more sinned against than sinning; also unlike Lear, he is hardened and envenomed by adversity. He is prevented from destroying Rome only by the pleadings of his mother Volumnia, who, in high Roman fashion, helps doom her child to save her fatherland...
Prophets of agricultural doom are fond of saying that U.S. farms are rapidly losing their fertility and will some day turn into sterile wastelands. This is not happening in one long-cultivated U.S. region. C.L.W. Swanson. chief soil scientist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, says that the farmland of New England, which was not naturally fertile when the Pilgrims landed, has been made fertile by proper farming methods, and is growing more productive all the time...