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...pretty good idea that FCC would tell NBC to get rid of Blue. Plenty of people have tried to buy Blue, such as ex-District of Columbia Commissioner George Edward Allen, and even more have been said to have tried, such as Tommy Corcoran; but with all radio in flux, all such attempts have come to nothing. Radiomen guessed the likeliest turn at Blue would be no sale to outside interests, but independent status for the network as a separate corporation, with its stock going to R.C.A.'s present shareholders...
...total impression that it leaves is not coherent. One is inclined to ask, "Where is all this going?" There is no observable trend, and the better the artists, the less they seem to have in common. Art, as indicated by these painting, seems to be in a period of flux, and we have yet to discover...
While they struggle against a few men mad with dynamism, the inertia of the "lower orders," in Teta's phrase, cannot be affected. All else is flux for them except a deep thirst for salvation. For the faithful that deep thirst is sufficient proof of the existence of water--they know they can escape from hell on earth into an embezzled heaven. Franz Werfel, though, cares about mundane things. He can only flee and explain...
Thus the first crisis in declining enrollment will come next fall. How heavily it will hit is difficult to say with army plans in such a continual state of flux. However, the obvious eligibility of students once the initial deferment is removed, indicates that as many as a fourth of those registered will have...
...legion and their literary tempers are short) may hail You Can't Go Home Again as the culminating Wolfe masterpiece. To others it may seem like rereading The Web and the Rock. There is the same mass and specific gravity of wordage. There is the same tidal flux and reflux of language. There is Wolfe's constant continental sense of the U. S., which sometimes turns into a Whitmanic bill of particulars. There are the same major characters, all from life, and the same unreality surrounding them. There are the same successes with minor characters, the same fine...