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...month. Half an acre of tracks, in a frame of fascinated faces, sprawled over the floor. But there was nothing new. After last year's smoking, screaming models that discharged passengers and cattle with the same intriguing efficiency, what else is there left to invent...
Eisenhower feels that he must act as a spokesman for the whole Republican Party, which, he says, he did not "invent." He feels it is not his function as presidential candidate to tell the people of Wisconsin whom they ought to send to the Senate. Says he: "The idea of forcing uniformity within a party is precisely the thing that most European countries have been doing to their own injury . . . This splinter party system of Europe ... is what the Democratic spokesman recommends for us Americans...
Kandinsky and Klee did more than anyone else to invent the language of modern art. Their followers have developed an impressive number of dialects. Although it is hard to hear the voices of today's quieter artists above the abstractionists' hue & cry, it seems likely that the noise will subside in time. As Carnegie Director Washburn puts it: "The 1952 International gives the impression of looking forward into the future. But it is actually of its own time, the year...
...while after that somebody will invent a boxing referee machine and a traffic cop machine and then a district judge machine, and the silence will become general. We will back down and let the Speed Graphic and the electronic computer move in to eliminate our mistakes. When that time comes they might as well close the college and put the students on learning dictation, for the sporting element, the element of mischance, the umpire element, will have disappeared. In its place will sit the unblinking machine, confident, proficient, and always right...
...halves of the same Camembert cheese, one carrying a bigger price tag than the other, French housewives "always" ("You hear me-always") ask for the more expensive piece. ¶Presented with both halves of the same bolt of cloth, customers not only buy the higher-priced half but actually invent reasons justifying the price difference...