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...while things are getting better, but not getting better fast enough. Iranians have seen something of Western ways and techniques. They are learning rapidly that their misery is unnecessary, their lot unjust. This means that Iran is not only poverty-stricken and disease-ridden; it is also in a ferment of insecurity that runs from the peasant in his windowless hovel to the young Shah in his palace. Everybody knows that the future will be very different, but nobody has any confidence that the immediate future will be better for him. Unless economic improvement is speeded up unless the people...
...years, English Novelist Phyllis Bentley has been carpentering a literary chronicle of her native Yorkshire. In twelve books she has tried both to give a close-grained structure of regional manners and to trace the doings of the English merchant class from its ferment under Cromwell to its troubles under Attlee. Like John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett, her literary masters, Novelist Bentley seldom sparkles or shines. Instead, she hammers out workmanlike novels that, stolid or not, reflect a good deal of social history...
...intellectual ferment that was Paris in the Twenties burst many strange and sometimes wonderful aberrations. The grand synthesizer of some of the best of these artistic movements was the little magazine "transition." Published first in April, 1927, "transition" found the inspiration for its early daring in dadaism and surrealism but soon developed its own literary philosophy...
...Ferment. Japan last week scarcely looked like the proper setting for such portentous words. The cherry blossoms were advancing northward through the islands. The first white buds had appeared at Kagoshima, Japan's southernmost and warmest port. Slowly they had taken all of Kyushu Island and, crossing the narrow straits, had established a beachhead on the rocky coast of Honshu. The blossoms last week sprouted near the Kure dockyards and on a thousand drowsy islands dotting the Inland...
...even in this scene, the country was in ferment. The "bloodless revolution" was in full swing. Just two years ago, the Diet passed Japan's new constitution. MacArthur himself had written the first draft in his clear, old-fashioned hand. It reduced the Emperor from godhead to symbol, abolished the feudal aristocracy, gave the Diet genuine power to make laws, guaranteed popular liberties, decreed sex equality, renounced the nation's right to make war, even for self-defense. It contained such alien concepts as "public servants" (ancient custom made bureaucrats responsible only to the Throne) and "pursuit...