Word: highs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pierce his smoke screen of self-publicity, discover that his naive, whimsical paintings were worthy of serious attention. For a song, dealers then snapped up his lush romantic landscapes, his pictures of Samoa, his moonlit fantasies, his strange nude "nymphs" bathing in improbable streams. These have since sold at high prices, while Eilshemius went in want. Last week his three Manhattan dealers agreed to cut him in on a percentage of future sales...
...Century Co., St. Nicholas began to decline after World War I as children turned to movies, radio, comic strips, and children's tastes grew steadily more sophisticated. To hold its market St. Nicholas lowered its age appeal year by year. Still circulation dropped: from a onetime high of around 100,000 it was down to less than 25,000 last year...
...would go through more & more severe crises, would eventually stall. Parkes shows clearly that the Marxian analysis was correct only up to a point. Marx, for example, harped on only one form of "exploitation," that of the working people by the owning classes; modern experience proves that restricted production (high prices) and frozen capital are chief causes of depression, exploitation of workers, farmers and middle class alike...
...Parkes excepts from autopsy. Marx was right, Parkes believes, in encouraging a militant trade unionism. Industrial democracy is essential. But the crucial error of Marxism, as Parkes sees it, was the theory that freedom could be attained only in a collectivized society. On this point the evidence is mountain-high. Says Henry Bamford Parkes: "Capitalist society is half free and half slave; instead of extending freedom to all, the Marxists propose to abolish the freedom...
MAUD-Edited by Richard Lee Strouf-Macmillan ($3.50). The Journal of Maud Rittenhouse, beginning in 1881 when she was the smartest and (nearly) the prettiest girl in high school in Cairo, Ill. What Maud confided to her leather-bound journal during the next 14 years makes as fascinating reading as was ever found in an attic...