Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This space-time-matter organism is forever evolving. Mankind is the whole organism's "developing nervous system," and is due for greater changes still. Reiser insists that men must not leave their evolution merely up to cosmic rays as in the past, but must take their fate in their own hands, construct a rational, planetary society. If man does so, promises Reiser, "he will be superseded by the superman...
...Evaluations. This is easy reading and gets the point across. Schwartz provides more substantial stuff and is quite thorough, stimulating many ideas. His article is carefully organized, and even a cursory examination of the magazine should include a fairly thorough reading of his passages on Thoroughness and The Fate of Society. Baker's comments could be applied to poetry in general today. Zabel analyses well the imagery in Stevens' poetry, while Finch concludes that Stevens is a real American poet in spite of the general howl that he follows in the steps of the French. Simons is factual with...
...many ways, the fate of the world hangs on American actions just now. If the U. S. becomes involved in conflict either in Europe or the Pacific, civilization will go up in flames." Relations between Japan and the U. S., he explained, "apparently depend largely on Japan's continental and South Seas policies," but "if the United States refuses to sell us oil and other supplies, we must get them elsewhere...
Still rolling with fate's and Pan Am's blows, Am Ex held to its schedule, last fortnight threw a gay party in New Orleans' famed Antoine's. There to meet city and State officials was New Zealand-born, hard-hitting, one-eyed Lowell Yerex, founder and president of TACA. Purpose of the banquet was to dramatize Am Ex's request to CAB for a New Orleans-Panama route across the Gulf via Guatemala. New Orleans papers, envisioning their city as an international airport, played ball. Next morning the respected Times-Picayune ran a four...
Olson brings out the design and freshens up the colors of this faded legend by putting it under the spotlight of today; turns it into a surrealistic cyclorama of human fate. In the foreground the seven deadly sins of Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Avarice, Pride, Anger move like insatiable' ghouls through the golden haze of eternity. The background is left for the individual cyclorama-goer to fill...