Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this desperate plea for the return to a scarcity economy, the matter rested this week. Karl Marx (who in a lifetime of research never came across a single shmoo) provides an inkling of what might yet happen. "Society . . . finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism . . . There is too much . . . means of subsistence . . . The productive forces at the disposal of society [i.e., the shmoos] no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property...
Juliana insisted that her daughters attend a public school, once instructed the headmistress not to "tell stories about fairy princesses or any stuff like that." The children have the Orange matter-of-factness. Recently, vacationing, Princess Beatrix grew impatient with a crowd of gaping local children. She presented herself on the porch of her parents' house. "This is how I look in front," she said, and turned. "This is how I look in back. Now go away and leave me alone...
...About You." Monte Cassino's abbot, white-haired Ildefonso Rea, last week recalled that the Abbey's motto is succisa virescit (cut down, it grows again). He said quietly: "This monastery was founded in the 6th Century. Four times* it has been destroyed, and every time, no matter how long it took, Monte Cassino has risen again. Nature shows us the urgent will to live. Look about you. Half-burned tree trunks are sprouting fresh and vigorous shoots...
...ever heard of starting a football season so early, for that matter? The All-America Football Conference, two-year-old rival of the National Football League, was acting like merchants who urge people to do their Christmas shopping early-early in October. The club-owners were convinced that the only way to get pro football out of the red was longer seasons, more games and bigger crowds...
...packed Amsterdam's Concertgebouw hall to its olive-green walls: "The Soviet Communist regime is not a regime of peace, and, indeed, it does not purport to be. It may not, and I hope that it does not, want international war. But, if so, that is a matter of expediency, not of principle ... It rejects the moral premises that alone make possible the permanent organization of peace . . . There is, says Stalin, no such thing as 'eternal justice' . . . Human beings have no rights that are God-given and therefore not subject to be taken away...