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...arbitrary. It violates the cardinal precept upon which the constitutional safeguards of personal liberty ultimately rest-that this shall be a government of laws. . . . Arbitrary power and the rule of the Constitution cannot both exist. They are antagonistic and incompatible forces; and one or the other must of necessity perish whenever they are brought into conflict...
Constructively, Dr. Hooton proposes an Institute of Clinical Anthropology, presumably to be financed by one of "those great philanthropic foundations which alternately establish and allow to perish . . . institutes for research to promote human betterment." Besides growth, old age, immunity and susceptibility, the institute would study norms and variations in physical, mental and nervous structure. New research channels would be fully developed.,: In orthopedics, for example, X-rays and slow-motion pictures would be used to investigate posture and gait from birth to death. The staff would include some physical anthropologists, whose special training and points of view are essential...
...feelings from their artistic judgment at a concert directed by a man whom they regard as an enemy of their race. To avoid painful experiences they will take the simple and logical course of staying away from these concerts. And if they abandon the Philharmonic-Symphony Society, it will perish. There is no musical enterprise of any kind whatever that can prosper in this great Jewish city without the support of the Jews...
Utilities must perish in an hour...
...Reds might delight in Henry de Montherlant's portrait of two eccentrics. Tycoons would find it had little connection with real life as they know it. But readers with no axe to grind and no grindstone to rest their noses on will be entertained, amused and touched by Perish in Their Pride. Though a study in human eccentricity (and French eccentricity at that), it was concentric with a more perfectly rounded humanity. Author Montherlant did not make caricatures of his creatures, grotesques in their own right...