Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal income tax is only a small part (about 15%) of the U.S. tax iceberg. In Britain, the Government is the only important taxing authority-it imposes some 90% of all taxes. The U.S. citizen also pays State income taxes, State and Federal excise taxes, State and local property taxes, sales taxes, numerous other imposts to a host of tax authorities...
...modern geographical exploration. The schedule will be: February 24, "Black Head-hunters of the Pacific," Dr. Douglas L. Oliver, of the Peabody Museum, Harvard; March 10, "Ascent of Mount Bertha," Bradford Washburn; March 17, "Searching for the First Agriculturists," Derwood W. Lockard, of the Peabody Museum; March 24, "Iceberg Ahead," William M. Rand, Jr.; April 14, "Australian Aborigines and Half-Castes," Joseph B. Birdsell; April 21, "Search for Sleeping Island," P. G. Downes; May 5, "Dominica, The Caribs' Last Stronghold," Walter H, Hodge; and May 19, "Alaska Indian Art," Frederick R Pleasants...
...mannerisms are hardly superior to those of a young "character" actor playing an old man. Between these strict archaic boundaries he constructs a complexity of invention, scholarly research, literary criticism, topical satire, prophecy, pure poetry. In every refraction, like the turnings of light within the depths of an iceberg, is recorded more of the nature, substance, detail of that bitterly remote, contemptuous, inhumanly self-pleased, almost divine prescience which is the essence of genius as Goethe had it-or as Thomas Mann observes and believes in it. Mann has here set down more on his subject than anyone has ever...
Insurrection, said Lenin, is an art. He did not add that the technique of insurrection is conspiracy. But Lenin taught his eager Bolsheviks that, besides every well-behaved, "legal" Communist Party, they must organize an "illegal," underground Communist Party. Its function, like the submerged three-quarters of an iceberg, would be to destroy in secret. Apt students of the Bolshevik art of conspiracy, as Hitler told Hermann Rauschning, were the Nazis. Soon Nazi Alfred Rosenberg modeled his foreign section of the Nazi Party after the foreign section of the Communist International. Soon Heinrich Himmler modeled his Gestapo after Russia...
...surreptitiously onto the nation's political bridge table. Latest in a long line of opportunities for finessing has been provided by inoffensive Greenland. With the conquest of Denmark by Germany, the status of the former Danish possession becomes highly indefinite. Presumably envisaging a gigantic Anschluss extending into this Atlantic iceberg, many Americans state that the United States' attitude toward Greenland must be the same as toward Canada. And even Mr. Roosevelt expresses the hope that the position of this island will cause Americans to think. The New York Herald Tribune, not wont to deify the Administration, applauds the President editorially...