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...down the hatches that the passengers have forgotten how to breathe"), he was the philosopher of more enlightened conservatism, which he developed in a series of able party pamphlets. He threw his support behind social security, gave needed protection to individuals facing tribunals, fought for aliens' right to live permanently in Britain, has been the champion of an up-to-date censorship law. After Suez, when Harold Macmillan was chosen instead of him to succeed Eden at 10 Downing Street, Butler remarked: "Well, it is something to have been almost Prime Minister." In the long run, Rab Butler seems...
...Tell the old man you're sick of staying at home. Get out on the town. Enjoy music, live music!" So bubbled Jackie Gleason, the Brooklyn boulevardier, on TV and radio last week, seconded by Jimmy Durante and Judy Holliday. In English, Spanish, Yiddish and Italian, 19 New-York newspapers were sprinkled with a dozen other catchy ads. Sample: a migraine victim with arrows piercing his skull and the caption. "Cure for short temper, nagging headache, shattered nerves, daily depression-Get Live Music...
Millions of Americans pick up the telephone to get the weather or the correct time, shopping news, stock market quotations, recorded prayers, bird watchers' bulletins, and even (in Boston) advice to those contemplating suicide. Teen-agers could hardly live without the telephone -and many parents can hardly live with it. Twisted into every position-so long as it is uncomfortable-teen-agers keep the busy signals going with deathless conversation: "What ya doin? Yeah. I saw him today. Yeah. I think he likes me. Wait'll I change ears. Whaat? Hold on till I get a glass...
Africa teaches 'him what he wants. From Romilayu, his native Sancho Panza, he learns something of undeviating loyalty. Romilayu leads Henderson to the Arnewi, a sweet-spirited tribe which lives by the rule of kindness. Their Queen Willatale, a woman of imposing gravity, gives Henderson a hint of the demon that drives him on. She tells him that he has the grun-tu-molani, in effect, the will to live rather than die, and to live more abundantly. In gratitude, Henderson proposes to rid the Arnewi of an infestation of frogs which, according to tribal superstition, is ruining...
Those who would make a design for living, says Author Powell, must still contend with those who run up a shack of no design and live in it. Despite technological advances, the world will end not with a bang but a Kwimper...