Word: ems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Objectivism. What was the objectionable "objectivism?" In Aleksandrov's case, it was merely the familiar polemical device of building 'em up before knocking 'em down. He had used this technique on Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Fichte, Hegel. But he had also been found guilty of playing with metaphysics, a reprehensible sin in Russia, and he had depicted Marxism as an evolution from earlier philosophy. Thundered Zhdanov: "The origin of Marxism was a real discovery, a revolution in philosophy." In the wake of Zhdanov's thunder, 46 of Aleksandrov's colleagues and coworkers, among them doubtless...
...work. He is pretty discouraged at the moment over his efforts of the past few months. The Ace-originated CBS Was There (TIME, Aug. 4) was abandoned after seven weeks, and Ace is gloomy about his Robert Q. Lewis Little Show (TIME, June 23): "I gave 'em a good, tight, 15-minute comedy show and what do they do? They expand it to half an hour and throw in an orchestra and an audience. . . . Who the hell said a comedy show had to be half an hour? Marconi? Ida Cantor...
...Take them re-bop* boys. They're great technicians. Mistakes-that's all re-bop is. Man, you've gotta be a technician to know when you make 'em. . . . New York and 52nd Street-that's what messed up jazz. Them cats play too much music -a whole lot of notes, weird notes. . . . That don't mean nothing. . . . You've got to carry a melody...
Last week, "Steamboat" Johnson sounded again. The embargo would go on this week unless Canada, 1,750 cars above its quota, got into line. "We need those cars," said he, "and, damn it we're going to get 'em." That carried the teapot tempest right into the Dominion Cabinet. It dug through piles of memoranda, stacks of statistics, sadly concluded that Canada's railroaders had failed to keep their word mainly because they could not bring themselves to return the cars empty. Get going, said the Cabinet and hang the expense...
There was news aplenty for the sports fans. In San Francisco an enterprising rat fancier was busily training some 80 albino rats, their tails dyed distinguishing hues, to run races in a specially designed treadmill. "I just put 'em on the wheel and poke 'em," he said. "They get the idea pretty fast." In France, Britain's pigeon fanciers let loose some 4,000 prize birds in the France-to-England Grand National and Northeast Lancashire classics. Only 50% of the birds returned to England, but pigeon racers are philosophical about their hobby. What with the heat...