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...Liberals's gain of 5 and loss of 33. But if one can believe the opinion of John Strachey, once a confidant of the higher-ups in the Labour Party, this success at the polls will bring surprise not unmingled with consternation to the Party leaders. And this apparent paradox is easily explained: for years it has been the face-saving excuse of Labour officials that though they had power, they had no majority, and therefore no chance of effecting the socialist legislation to which they were pledged. To the average coal-miner this seemed reasonable enough. But what will...
...struck by a paradox. The University gives Music 4, a course in the Appreciation of Music. About 200 music-loving undergraduates can be seen at the local and Boston Symphony concerts. There is a course in the appreciation of art, Fine Arts 1d, and maybe 50 undergraduates attend the Greater Boston art museums in a week. The University gives no course in the appreciation of football, and yet over 2,000 go to the local exhibitions. At mid-western colleges we are told, a man may major in football, and then go to Law School to take special courses...
...President announced that in 30 days A A A would start buying $75.000,000 worth of surplus cotton and foodstuffs to be distributed among the 3,500,000 families still dependent upon public charity. He described this move as "one of the most direct blows at the economic paradox which has choked farms with an abundance of farm products while many of the unemployed have gone hungry...
...fabulously remote from the familiar things of human existence is science's probing into the fundamental secretae of the universe-of light, electricity, gravity, matter-that the language of physicists is becoming metaphysical. Efforts to fit new discoveries to demonstrable theory, or to perform the converse, simply pile paradox on paradox. While U. S. probers have been mostly content to spin new riddles by unearthing new facts in their laboratories, European physicists have tried more & more of late, by sheer sweat of mind, to coordinate, to reconcile, to reduce the areas of conflict among observed phenomena. Last week...
...explanation of this paradox is that Bostonians are partisan to an absurd degree. This explains their insanity re the Braves and Red Sox. It also explains their disdain of New York Theatre critics. No play, or movie either, ever drew full houses for more than two or three nights on an outside reputation alone. Boston is polite but demands to be shown. Producers invariably face the problem of proving the merit of their production all over again. Boston audiences are discriminating; they have their favorites. Most of all, however, they like what they like...