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...beauty for balance; Hugh Dalton had achieved a surplus of about ?270,000,000 ($1,080,000,000). It had an unmistakably Laborite look in keeping income taxes high on the rich and the middle class, while easing those of the low-income group. But it had one monstrous feature: the duty on tobacco was upped by 50%. That meant that a package of 20 cigarets, which cost 47? on Budget Day, cost 67? the day after...
...unequivocal, masculine and as glitteringly clear as winter air. He is the least sentimental or feminine of modern writers. But truth and derangement are galley-mates, since the horror that tugs at the same oar is the perception that man and his fate by human standards are monstrous. Kafka retains his sanity by his realization that man's fate is also divine comedy. This is the hinge of his unearthly irony...
Krug remained silent; he suffered Lewis's rawhiding without complaint. Then he ordered 518 Government-held mines closed for safety reasons. Lewis bawled with triumph: "This is Krug's deathbed confession. Oh, God, what a monstrous, grotesque mistake that he is in the position which he occupies...
Returning to the attack five days later, Jewell had his own name for Picasso's latest period. "This, as of course everyone knows," said he, "is the phase of the monstrous distortions. . . . Now, distortion itself I can quite take in my stride. But I must repeat with firmness, even though I alone be out of step, that Picasso's painting of about the last 15 years has me stymied. . . . [It] appears to be, in the main, just mediocre or bad painting...
Labor unions knew just how Dr. Frankenstein felt. After scaring industry out of its wits with monstrous portal-to-portal suits, unions last week got scared...