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...growing trend which has already made the list a key factor in government and industry employment programs. But, despite this importance, it remains relatively obscure. Few people have seen it, and still fewer know why the specific groups are included. An increasing number find out about this phantom scroll too late...
...Reynolds painstakingly studies such bygone greats as Donatello and Poussin ("You never get to the end of a bloke like Poussin"), but at night he is his own master, stays up until the late hours painting & repainting his personal phantom world. His fantastic landscapes have the same wonderful eeriness as Graham Sutherland's thorny abstractions, but they are quieter, as delicately brushed as fine Japanese watercolors. In each he takes the ordinary sights of rural England, twists and molds them into subtle generalizations on nature...
...huge spending, both public and private, brought loud warnings from the Administration of runaway inflation. To fight what turned out to be a phantom, the Administration tightened control of credit and concentrated on a system of direct controls of prices and wages. It failed to realize that such curbs, unavoidable in an all-out war, were hardly needed in the cold-war economy of 1952. In any case, the Administration's controls were a mockery; price and wage bosses went in & out of office so fast that most civilians hardly knew-or cared-who was in charge. The tremendous...
...people were muttering imprecations over General Vlasov and his cadres of anti-Stalinist Russians, pointing to their alliance with Hitler Germany and their treasonable assaults on our embattled ally. Recently, comment has changed in form, if not in error, with the public magnifying the numbers and effectiveness of this phantom army and the chances of domestic revolt it angures. Fischer has collected reams of facts, distilled them, presumably with care, and pressed them into a compact book, all to set the record straight...
What is not so impressive is the tenuous connection between what the author is describing and what he is expounding. He has a thesis to advance, an incisive one. Organized resistance in Russia, he says, is as much a phantom as Vlasov's army; only a tremendous surprise attack on Russia can produce it. The basis for this assertion is something Fischer calls Inertness, the quality of the Russian mind which excludes initiative and makes action wholly dependent on minutely detailed orders from on high. The most interesting part of "Soviet Opposition to Stalin" is Fischer's exploration of this...