Word: labyrinth
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...Santayana's sprawling political work, Dominations and Powers, which he published in his old age, it can only be said that all readers seem to have been lost in its noble but confusing labyrinth. The old Spanish-Catholic belief in mystical authority came out in it; nothing could be less congenial to Western thought. Subjective philosophy, intuition, essence, had so thoroughly "gone out" that, while the sweep of Santayana's mind was admired, he seemed to be saying nothing seizable. His true role lay in being a civilized hermit on the adjacent hill, the sage apart, the skeptical...
...forerunners; they have, so to speak, the ears and the appetite of the bloodhound, without the nose. Meanwhile, a new kind of pro has been growing in the shadow of the New and Fair Deals. He is usually a smart lawyer who learns his way around the Washington bureaucratic labyrinth and who can, from an obscure post, exercise more power than many an old-style boss. These men, known admiringly as "operators" in Washington, are usually both able and honest, although the Washington experience frequently pays off in subsequent law practice. First of this breed was Thomas ("Tommy the Cork...
Responsible for handling the vast bulk of the $900 million in ECA funds with which the U.S. has kept Austria alive since the war, Joham's Creditanstalt built up a complex labyrinth of foreign holding and trading companies (including some in New York which were forced to return $1,000,000 in overcharges for ECA goods in 1950, another listed as owned by Joham's son in London, another in France half-owned by the son). Under Joham's management, the Creditanstalt struck large and questionable deals with Soviet and satellite traders, e.g., lard bought with...
...Social Labyrinth. Angela Madison is the natural leader of the quartet; she is striking if not pretty, and supposed by the town, for no clear reason, to be intellectual. Ellen Terra Rook is small, squashy and ripe as a berry. Hope Stone suffers from having been born up North, but in her literal-minded way she, too, burns with the hungers of youth. Carrie Gregory, crippled by polio, cuts her way through life with her tongue. Different as they are, all agree on one thing: each is out to land Rector Barbee...
...Shannon has a good time with Theseus and seems much attached to him, but he did not create the mouse and his labyrinth just for fun. They are useful in studying telephone switching systems, which are very like labyrinths. In effect, each telephone call is a mouse that has to find its way to the cheese (the called telephone) in the shortest possible time...