Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robin Hood Fallacy. How to get away from this situation, which might be called the Robin Hood fallacy? K. & A.'s solution does not lie in cutting up larger slices of an ever-larger "economic pie." Instead, "the task of a truly capitalistic society is to broaden the ownership of the pie-making machinery and to build a vast number of new pie-making machines that will be owned by people who do not now own such machines...
...Real Hunger. Nordness announced plans to take over Madison Square Garden, show 4,000 works of art painted in 1957. None was to be larger than 48 in. by 48 in. When fellow Manhattan art dealers predicted this would bring a deluge of mediocrities, Nordness agreed to have a jury whittle the entries down to about 1,000 volunteered works which would go into the show along with offerings from a specially invited group of already recognized name artists...
...engined Ilyushins (opposite number to the DC-3) that are its bread-and-lard planes. Thus, in less than three years, Aeroflot hopes to leap from the primitive, twin-engined piston stage into the four-jet age, without carefully rolling up experience on larger piston planes as Western lines have done...
...ROCK, by Francis King (248 pp.; Pantheon; $3.50), is based on the fact that the human comedy is seldom humane. British Novelist Francis King, 34, pitches his inhumane comedy on the rise and fall of a young Greek spiv of the postwar dead-beat generation. The book's larger theme is the old motif of American innocence v. European corruption. Reflected in the golden eye of a Mediterranean setting, what is sordid and depraved becomes corrosively hilarious. Spiro Polymerides is a sun-baked peasant Apollo. He is taken up by an arty, effeminate, high-minded official...
...Upper Story spreads through two rooms. The larger contains glassware, cutlery, furniture, salt and pepper shakers of assorted shapes and sizes, and several unusual imported items. Part of the smaller room is used for a greeting card display shelf which features the bizarre humor of the popular intellectual sort. The area just inside the display window contains enamelware, lamps, and hand-turned bowls, while woodwork lines the walls and shelves. "This part of the store," says Mrs. Howe, "we keep to display local crafts. There are so many galleries in the area now, and this is a gallery...