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From this first experience Le Corbusier has kept the instinct of the fatidical, indispensible, practical, and beneficient relations between the hand and the head. The rupture of this collaboration of the hand and the head brought by the mechanism and the bureacracy has fomented little by little the monstrous society which would be on the decline if no reaction interfered...
Several of the most engaging passages in the psychological works of James describe what he imagines to be the experience of animals. "To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not the utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which...
...revolution ever broke out, no matter how outrageous the circumstances of the powers that be." But you won't find in Time equally important statements which are less to its liking: "When we were told that by freedom we meant free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood," or Miss Arendt's observation on the "unchained, unbridled private initiative of capitalism, which in the absence of natural wealth has led everywhere to unhappiness and mass poverty." It is precisely "unhappiness and mass poverty"--partially the child of irresponsible capitalism--which creates the revolutions Time is so piously...
...another monstrous pile...
...every teacher should) will begin to see the tower as something other than the beacon of American education. Behind the window slits, vaulted ports, and bulging bastions, grey-green scaly orks will lurk, whispering in the Black Speech, plotting hideous amusements. Hulking trolls will patrol the moat. Shelob, the monstrous arachnid, will have spun her webs among the stairways, ducts, and circuits of the "service perimeter." On the battlements will wait the flying Nazgul, their piercing cries cutting across the Common...