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...Miller is interested here in "the sin of public terror" (his phraseology is a pretty good indication of where he stands on the matter), which was an even more vital issue when The Crucible was written than it is now. He indulges in no hindsight, and loads his play with no over-obvious parallels to contemporary events--though the audience is not discouraged from drawing parallels itself. But his play demonstrates impressively that when a man reasons from certain premises, it is inevitable for him to conclude that all opposition to the government is treason...
Grand Old Actor. The essence of history is hindsight, and it is difficult to read Schlesinger's account of labor's rise, e.g., the bitter, bloody Teamsters strike in Minneapolis, without reflecting on the monstrous extremes of power which the downtrodden of yesterday have reached. A future historian, not so solid as Schlesinger on the do-gooding glamour of it all. may yet weigh the memorable reforms accomplished by the New Deal against its ominous drive toward the welfare state...
...reports. Prepared daily while the strike was in progress, stuffed into separate big envelopes (coded Alice, Betsy, Carol, Diana, Edna and so on down through Queenie) against the day publication was resumed, this running rehash avoided the obvious temptation to correct day-to-day judgments in the light of hindsight. On Dec. 27 the Times filed away a story-later proved false-that a transatlantic balloon had landed safely in Venezuela. It would have been easy to replace that story with another before the delayed two-page issue was printed, but the Times resolutely immortalized the false report, published...
Resting rock-like on the twin foundations of hindsight and inevitability, Road to the Stars is pretty dull entertainment. The future is offered as a fantastic but closed book. The invasion of the cosmos isn't as exciting as Walt Disney or George Pal might make it. More interesting is the account of the early struggles of the late Soviet creator (in 1903) of the multiple-stage rocket, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a schoolteacher "as modest as he was great." Half-deaf himself, Tsiolkovsky was able to gain no other ears than those of his young students until the October Revolution...
...bond market is still in the throes of a shake-out that Wall Streeters compare to the '29 crash in stocks. With the benefit of hindsight, bond experts lay the blame on Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson. Eager to stretch out the public debt, i.e., lengthen the maturing period of Government bonds, Anderson brought out medium and long-term bond issues in June, a poor time because the market was at the top of a speculative binge that had boosted the price of U.S. bonds (TIME, June 30). Many, gambling on a continued rise, bought the new bonds with nothing...