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...classic case of overidentification. Teachers sometimes still have trouble convincing moppets that Ameche did not invent the telephone; World War II G.I.s referred to the phone as "the Ameche...
...lights of modern determinist psychology, for instance, there is scarcely anything startling in this statement: "Sometimes a man is ... a born scoundrel-like Stanford White*-and upon him the world lavishes censure and dispraise; but he is only obeying the law of his nature. [The human race] did not invent itself, and it had nothing to do with the planning of its weak and foolish character...
...address to the Social Relations Society, Bauer stated that this concern has its roots in "the perpetual hope and horror that man will invent means of controlling and manipulating man." Even in the thirties psychologists and psychiatrists were taking the place of witches and devils in demonology...
...staunchest allies in the fight against red ink are Budget Director Stans and Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, who has taken to arriving at his desk by 7:30 a.m., staying until 7 p.m. or later, and was recently heard to mutter wearily: "Somebody has got to invent a 48-hour day." Anderson and Stans hope to hold down fiscal 1960 spending (beginning next July) by cutting into the scandalous $7 billion-a-year cost of farm programs, switching to the states some federal responsibilities for slum clearance, aid to the aged etc. But it is in the $40 billion...
...good idea to take a dip. He was never seen again. Diana held his watch, and later consoled herself that he probably would have been the first to be killed in the war. It was a scene for the historian -one a novelist would hardly dare to invent...