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When Miss Lutyens and her bronze baby took to the London subways, sleepy air-raid refugees rubbed their eyes in horror. On the blacked-out train ride to Liverpool a flashlight suddenly revealed Miss Lutyens and her infantile fragment to a woman seated opposite. The woman fainted. While waiting for the boat (the White Star Liner Georgic) in Liverpool, Miss Lutyens stored the statue with her other baggage in a basement. Meanwhile Liverpool, too, had an air raid. When she returned for the baby, she had to dig it out from under a heap of bomb-strewn rubble. She trundled...
...Chinese Christians," thinks Mr. Barnett, "can teach Americans a lot." A symbol of their spirit is the paperweight on his Manhattan desk - a fragment of the bomb with which a Japanese plane com pletely destroyed the big Y auditorium at Chungking two days before he got there last June. Though Chungking's Y has now been bombed five times, the work goes on regardless. Says its dogged Chinese general secretary: "They may destroy all our buildings, but they can't destroy...
...they do not apply." This old verdict sums up the tragedy of academic economics: the struggle for a scientific approach to an essentially unscientific objct, the attempt to project reality into a vacuum by relegating the "other factors" out of the rump of reality, the economist wilfully shapes a fragment into an imaginary whole, his theory. By its very origin, economic theory is a segment...
...there any way to hear the other side anywhere? Vag had caught a snatch of it when Russ Nixon spoke at Kirkland, and another fragment when Paul Sweezy had his turn at Dunster. ... But Vag wanted to hear more...
...Berkeley, Calif., Henry Atkinson reluctantly drew a bead on his ailing cat, muttered: "This will hurt me more than it will you." He pulled the trigger; the gun exploded. The cat was unscathed. To hospital went Atkinson with a six-inch metal fragment in his chest...