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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time to Awake. A less sinister, but equally significant situation was described by Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders as existing in mass-production enterprise, where the worker performs a specific operation, planned by people he does not know, often for reasons he does not understand. He has no direct connection with the finished product, no voice as to how it is to be used. He can make up for this loss of influence only through social and political participation in his community...
...Washington desk Hoffman is a shirtsleeves administrator, working early & late, even-tempered, ready with smile and soft humor. At first he took to solitary soda-fountain lunches to save time, now he has small lunches with other officials, often at the Metropolitan Club. When he appears before Congress he turns on some of his old salesman's magic, has earned widespread respect for candor and readiness with information. "You should see him operate with Congress," said a colleague. "Whenever a knotty one comes up, he slaps his knee and says: 'Senator, you're entirely right...
Whispered or asked in a clear unabashed voice, no question is heard more often in a modern art gallery. The answers-whether supplied by highbrow critics, crusty crusaders, or well-meaning friends of the artist-are rarely very conclusive. This week, one Manhattan gallery tried the sensible experiment of letting the artists speak for themselves. It put on a group show of 23 U.S. painters (including some of the best) and invited each of them to contribute 75 words of explanation for the exhibition catalogue...
...warnings have often been repeated in technical journals. But the public, delighted with DDT, kept right on spraying closets, beds, kitchens and household pets. Whole communities were engulfed in artificially created DDT fogs. Gardeners and dairy farmers found it a quick means of destroying insect pests. By 1947, the manufacture of DDT .had boomed into a $30 million industry...
Children of Misery. But it did. Poet Hughes's libretto turned out to have far more peroration ("Children of misery, tomorrow we must be free," etc.) than punch. And Composer Still's music, sometimes lusciously scored, sometimes naively melodic, often had more prettiness than power. In all, Troubled Island had more of the 'souffle of operetta than the soup bone of opera. With a little seasoning here & there, some listeners thought, it could even be made into a Broadway hit. Composer Still's first-night audience liked it fine, anyhow. Exultant, happy, and even more determined...