Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Carrel made his great audience believe that scientists have immortality in their power. Said he: "Although remote, some individuals could be put in storage for long periods of time, brought back to normal existence for other periods, and permitted in this manner to live for several centuries. We should remember the Utopias of today are sometimes the realities of tomorrow...
...characters are bewildered," continued Mr. Odets. "The best laid plans go wrong. The sweetest human impulses are frustrated. No one leads a normal life here, and every decent tendency finds its complement in sterility and futility. Our confused middle-class today, which dares little, is dangerously similar to Chekhov's people. Which is why the people in Awake and Sing! and Paradise Lost (particularly the latter) have what is called a 'Chekhovian quality.' Which is why it is so sinful to violate their lives and aspirations with plot lines. Plots are primer stuff, easily learned...
...book is its presentation of facts and figures which bear upon the political thought and activity of colleges in the various sections of the country. This material is well presented and affords an interesting insight into the methods by which officials and students maintain the balance of "normal orthodoxy" on the campus. To this column the revolt on the campus hardly deserves the name, at least at present, unless an enforced but gradual awakening to realistic issues can be called a revolt...
Significance. Though the cotton contract calls for a crop reduction of 30% to 45% below normal, it does not represent as stiff a cut as has been demanded by Southern Senators who want to boost the price of cotton. This fact, in conjunction with the smaller reduction in corn planting and no reduction at all in hog raising, indicates AAA's present belief that farm prices are not likely to flop, that those who want still higher prices are less to be feared than the loss of markets, the howls of consumers...
...this was fine news for Russia in 1935, except that one of Communism's great talking points has always been against Capitalism's technique of "the speed-up." As usually described by Communists, the Capitalist bosses incite crack workers to exceed normal production, get the whole shop working faster to keep up, exhaust and exploit their workers. Throughout Russia proletarians sensed that the disguised State Capitalism of Dictator Stalin, which has already forced piecework upon Russians, is now bent upon the speed-up disguised as "Stakhanovism...