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...YORK CITY, Feb. 17-The reaction of this teeming metropolis to the war has been true to its nature; an unfathomable paradox. Since Dec. 1, we read night club attendance has considerably risen and consumption of liquors considerably dropped...
...authorities have warned the public not to seek shelter in the subways, branding them as unsafe; but according to the official air raid regulations, "passengers in trains or stations should stay there." As the most puzzling paradox of all struck us the proclamation plastered over the windows of all public conveyances: WHEREVER YOU ARE-BE CALM-BE QUIET-DON'T SHOUT-F. H. LaGuardia...
...picture which the Mahler popularizers paint of a genial pantheistic pagan who has achieved complete harmony within himself is entirely false. Mahler lived in a confused time and was himself a mass of contradictory tendencies. You have in him the paradox of a composer who, in contrast to the tone-painting and theme-overlapping of Wagner and Strauss, wrote in the classical symphonic form with a sound knowledge of counter-point, yet one who was essentially homophonic in style and never attained the balance and integrated development that the classical forms imply...
...that it is better to look for the point which is 1 or 2 per cent above maximum rather than operate at 30 or 50 per cent below maximum. It may be remembered that sacrifices in efficiency can be made if they will serve to gain time, apparently a paradox but true, nevertheless...
...business heads have arrived at the only logical solution to the paradox of how to retain the frills, such as ice cream in the chocolate milk and grapefruit with honey, and at the same time to eliminate their cost. It has decided to treat those frills as the luxuries they are, and no longer as indispensables. Happily the use of coupons in payment for extra orders cuts out unnecessary red tape. The complex of pink, white, and blue slips, which are now used only for statistical records, should definitely go. The real difficulty is not one of mechanics...