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Friedman is a man totally devoted to ideas?isolating them in pure form, expressing them in uncompromising terms and following them wherever they may lead. His basic philosophy is simple and unoriginal: personal freedom is the supreme good???in economic, political and social relations. What is unusual is his consistency in applying this principle to any and all problems, regardless of whom he dismays or pleases, and even regardless of the practical difficulties of putting it into effect. He alternately delights and infuriates conservatives, New Left radicals and almost every group in the crowded middle road...
...does not take a war to keep a Secretary of War busy. Though it was Washington's slack season, the present occupant of the Cabinet's No. 3 post?James William Good???last week was more than usually occupied...
...South's reaction to this political Hooverization was divided. The Atlanta Constitution said: "Good???If It Stands." The Jackson, Miss., Daily News declared: "They have taken him [Hoover] to a mountain top and shown him the promised land, but on closer inspection he will find it is only a mirage. . . . The G. 0. P. is the Negro party . . . and always will...
...campaign trinkets goes into a number of things. The most elaborate is the campaign text book giving the party platform, acceptance speeches of the candidates and other good party propaganda. These are distributed to local campaigners, to editors, to correspondents, etc.?wherever they may do good???and they cost perhaps $50,000. There are also many thousands of pamphlets, much cheaper to get out, but much more numerous. There are posters and lithographs of the candidates which cost about four cents apiece. In 1920, the Republicans distributed 5,000,000 of these in crucial states. There are also campaign...
...surprised and pleased that he actually liked me." At this point Stephen Leacock broke in, violently. "I'd rather have met a relative of Dickens' than any crowned head in Europe," he insisted. Dickens, it seems, is his literary god. Shakespeare? Oh, yes? Well and good??? but Dickens! Why? For the reason that the humor of Stephen Leacock persists because it is based on a deep understanding of the human mind and a sympathy for human frailty. If only more of our present day writers would turn their attention to the picturing of individual characters and spend some time...