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...concentration of power in the hands of the few is precisely what has held many nations back. By wielding strong control over their economies, socialist states leave scant room for innovation, enterprise or experimentation. In a recent book, How the West Grew Rich, Authors Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell Jr. write that the explanation for Western Europe's economic growth starting in the Middle Ages was the increasing dispersal of power in society. They conclude that this achievement "stemmed from a relaxation, or a weakening, of political and religious controls, giving other departments of social life the opportunity to experiment...
...Fitzgerald, among others, to perform scenes from O'Neill dramas. Interspersed are labored re-creations of people and events from the playwright's life, complete with sound effects (snoring in a flophouse) and performers impersonating such O'Neill intimates as his wives Agnes and Carlotta and Critic George Jean Nathan...
...native writing style developed--at a penny a word--in the highly degradable pulp pages of this monthly. At no extra cost, Black Mask came wrapped in an irony. It was founded with $500 in 1920 by the journalist and scholar H.L. Mencken and the playwright George Jean Nathan as a way of financing the unprofitable Smart Set, their magazine of uptown wit and sophisticated prose. The "louse," as Mencken called his detective journal, was an immediate success, and in six months he sold it for $100,000, the price of 10 million words...
...Boston-born Calkins, who attended both the College and the Law School before moving West, gained localfame when used the local media and made personalappearences in 1969 and 1970 to mitigate theanti-administration, anti-war sentiment thatmarred the final year of the administration ofPresident Nathan M. Pusey...
Only two parts of Great Good Fortune are redeeming at all. The first is the introduction, where Vigeland has a surprisingly candid conversation with Nathan M. Pusey '28, the president of Harvard who called in the Staties to smash the heads of several of Vigeland's classmates when they took over University Hall in 1969. Looking back at those years, Pusey lets down his guard enough to say that his real disappointment was not with the radicals but with the faculty, who failed to stand up to them: "I've never said this to anyone but my wife," Pusey admits...